Senior Infrastructure Engineer

1/22/2026

Develop technical and business solutions to improve product quality and reliability. Drive improvements to core infrastructure and own incident management processes.

Salary

191000 - 250000 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

51-200 employees

Language

English

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About The Company

In Descript you can make any video you want, any way you want. All you need is an idea; it helps if you know how to type. With the world’s first and only AI co-editor, Underlord, you can make a video just by describing your vision. It will create, edit, and design your video—all under your direction. It’s got the taste and judgment you want in a creative partner and the expertise you need from a video editor. And it’s tireless—so you can stay focused on getting the result you’re after while it does all the dirty work. And when you want to get dirty, you don’t need special knowledge or skills. If you can edit text, you can edit video with Descript. It’s loaded with automated design tools, plus the friendliest timeline editor you’ve ever seen, a built-in recorder, and hosted publishing that makes collaboration as easy as sending a link. With Descript’s powerful AI and intuitive tools, your creativity is unbounded—freed from the limitations of what you don’t know, and what AI can’t know. Create product demos, training videos, screen recordings, video messages, podcasts, or social clips. Join the 7 million+ creators and businesses using Descript, and create something impressive—something you can be proud of.

About the Role

About Us

Descript is on a mission to make audio and video content creation and editing fast, easy, and accessible to all. We are building a cutting-edge media editor incorporating real time collaboration, ground-breaking UX, and cutting-edge AI. This is the future of media! At Descript, we believe that software engineers should own the reliability and performance of what they ship to production, so as an Infrastructure Engineer, you will drive projects that let engineers better understand and improve the performance, availability, and quality of what they ship. In addition, you will be owning and improving the core production infrastructure and building blocks upon which other engineers depend. We are looking for people who have good systems fundamentals, a desire to teach and advise colleagues, and the ability to make strategic decisions. As one of the early members of the Infrastructure team, you will be shaping what reliability looks like at Descript as we grow. If you love the idea of working closely with engineering leadership to build a product that users love, this may be the role for you!

At Descript, you will:

Develop technical and business solutions that enable engineers to improve the quality and reliability of product features and systems that they build.
Drive improvements to the reliability of our core infrastructure, such as production clusters, networking, databases, and observability systems.
Champion best practices during reviews of code, technical designs, and launch plans.
Own our incident management and fire drill processes.
Work with engineering leadership to set goals and prioritize production reliability.

Requirements

5+ years experience in production/site-reliability engineering OR 5+ years of server-side software engineering with an interest in working on core infrastructure
A solid understanding of at least two of: public cloud infrastructure, Linux systems administration, and DevOps tooling.
Basic coding skills to work on automation and technical guardrails.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with other functions
Experience mentoring engineers, including code reviews, architecture discussions, and leadership skills

Nice to Have’s

Experience with:
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Platform
- Terraform

The base salary range for this role is $191K-$250K. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.

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About Descript

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).

Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.

Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles. For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration. For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. We do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person.

Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.

Key Skills

Production EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringServer-Side Software EngineeringPublic Cloud InfrastructureLinux Systems AdministrationDevOps ToolingCoding SkillsAutomationTechnical GuardrailsMentoring EngineersCode ReviewsArchitecture DiscussionsLeadership SkillsTypeScriptKubernetesGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraform