Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Espresso AI is a well-funded, early-stage startup focused on using machine learning to automate performance engineering. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will design and build distributed systems for optimization, collaborate on long-term technical direction, and mentor junior engineers while improving the platform's performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and scale Espresso’s distributed execution and scheduling systems
• Develop internal compute environments to safely offload workloads from Snowflake and Databricks
• Implement compiler-style analysis and optimization of SQL workloads
• Build infrastructure and data pipelines that support ML modeling and product features
• Improve performance, reliability, and observability across the platform
• Influence architectural decisions and contribute to engineering strategy as an early team member
• Mentor junior engineers as we scale the team, fostering strong engineering fundamentals and high-quality execution