Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Descript · San Francisco, CA or Remote, US
Posted 12 days ago · $220,000 to $292,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Descript's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 100% of Descript's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Descript
- high 6 stale, 0 reposted of 11 open
- Hiring momentum
- 15 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Descript's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Descript.
About this role
As a Software Engineer in Infrastructure at Descript, you will own and enhance the platform that supports model training and deployment, focusing on reliability, observability, and security. You will collaborate with other engineering teams to understand their needs, make architectural decisions, and improve the team's processes for shipping and learning. Your role involves managing cloud infrastructure, contributing to AI tooling, and ensuring that systems are both cost-effective and reliable.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Descript as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems or equivalent server-side engineering with a heavy infrastructure focus
- Experience leveraging agents to multiply impact and critical thinking about AI usage
- Experience running systems where failure was expensive, with a focus on reliability and deployment
- Experience with on-call responsibilities and incident management
- Use of SLOs and error budgets as operating tools
- Experience with a major cloud provider and Kubernetes in production
Nice to have
- Experience with GPU and ML infrastructure, including capacity planning and serving cost
- Production security engineering experience, including IAM and secrets management
- Experience with cloud cost modeling and CI/CD at monorepo scale
- Familiarity with media, video, or GPU-backed workloads
- Experience working in small teams owning a large surface
What you get
- Base salary: $220,000 to $292,000, plus equity and benefits
- Generous healthcare package
- 401k matching program
- Catered lunches
- Flexible vacation time
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond GCP and Kubernetes
- The role involves being on-call, which may impact work-life balance
- Expectations for high reliability and cost management may add pressure
Summarised from Descript's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Descript on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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