Member of Engineering (Infrastructure) - Poolside

About Poolside

In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale.

Poolside exists to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress. We believe the fastest way to reach AGI lies in accelerating software development itself, by reshaping the developer experience with agentic systems, coding assistants, and the frontier models that power them.

About Our Team

We were founded in the US and have our home there, but our team is distributed across Europe and North America. We get our fix of in-person collaboration (and croissants) in Paris each month for 3 days, always Monday-Wednesday, with an open invitation to stay the whole week. We also do longer off-sites once a year.

Our team is a multidisciplinary blend of research, engineering, and business experts. What unites us is our deep care for what we build together.

About the Role

Design and implement the build, CI/CD, and tooling infrastructure that Poolside's researchers and engineers rely on every day. You'll join our infrastructure team as the second engineer focused on developer experience, partnering closely with the person who owns this area today while sharing on-call, incident response, and platform ownership with the wider team.

Your Mission

Make it seamless for our researchers and engineers to build, test, and ship. You'll take on significant ownership of our build and CI/CD systems, with the support of an established infrastructure team behind you.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage the infrastructure required by Poolside's engineers and researchers
• Leverage automation to multiply your impact across every team
• Develop tools and solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency of our engineering teams

Skills & Experience

• Build Systems: Strong hands-on experience with Bazel (writing and maintaining rules, macros, and toolchains); familiarity with remote caching and build optimisations.
• CI/CD: Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably Buildkite; comfortable with dynamic pipelines, agent fleet management, and build-time optimization.
• Python Ecosystem: Strong Python proficiency including packaging, dependency management (uv/pip/Poetry), and virtual environments; experience integrating Python and ML/research codebases into a monorepo build system.
• Go: Experience writing backend services, CLI applications, and internal developer tooling.
• Debugging & Problem-Solving: Expertise in debugging issues on Linux, including network and process-related problems.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Experience running containers using Kubernetes (managed or self-hosted).
• Cloud Services: Familiarity with AWS services, IAM policies, and Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Operations & Collaboration: Skilled in observability, monitoring, and incident response.

Interview Process

• Intro call with the team lead
• Technical Interview(s) with a member of our engineering team
• Team fit call with the People team
• Final interview with one of our Founding engineers

Benefits

• Fully remote work & flexible hours
• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
• Health insurance allowance for you & dependents
• 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave
• Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances
• Company-provided equipment
• Frequent team get togethers
• Diverse & inclusive people-first culture