Sierra Central Credit Union
Product Manager, Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 82 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningSalesforceAR/VRCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/.
- Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI.
- Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps.
Responsibilities
- Own performance, reliability, and scale: Define how Sierra systems handle real-time workloads, high concurrency, and enterprise-grade uptime requirements. Set the bar for latency, availability, and fault tolerance.
- Design developer primitives and tooling: Build the internal and external interfaces (APIs, SDKs, workflows) that engineers use to deploy, monitor, and iterate on agents.
- Drive system architecture decisions: Partner closely with engineering to make tradeoffs across consistency, cost, performance, and complexity. Bring first-principles thinking to infra design.
- Work across the full stack of the platform: Collaborate with product, engineering, and GTM teams to ensure infrastructure supports real customer use cases and evolving product needs.
- Deep technical product experience: building highly technical products, ideally across infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling
- Comfort with ambiguity and pace: Experience operating in fast-moving environments, building new systems with incomplete information
- Experience building developer platforms, APIs, or SDKs
- We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful.
- We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
- Build the internal and external interfaces (APIs, SDKs, workflows) that engineers use to deploy, monitor, and iterate on agents.
Requirements
- Ability to reason about distributed systems, scalability, latency, and reliability from first principles
- Ability to work deeply with engineers while clearly articulating tradeoffs and decisions across stakeholders
- Experience with distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering (compute, storage, networking, orchestration)
- Familiarity with modern AI/ML infrastructure or real-time systems
- Some coding experience (e.g., Typescript, Go, Python)
Compensation
- These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans.
Benefits
- We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
- Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
- These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans.
- Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.
Company info
- At Sierra, we're creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
- We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
- Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
- Ensure infrastructure accelerates product velocity, not slows it down - enabling teams to ship quickly without sacrificing reliability.
- Strong systems intuition: Ability to reason about distributed systems, scalability, latency, and reliability from first principles
- End-to-end product ownership: Track record of leading products from 0→1 and through scale, working closely with engineering and cross-functional teams
- Excellent collaboration and communication: Ability to work deeply with engineers while clearly articulating tradeoffs and decisions across stakeholders
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