About the role
We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff - SRE with 5+ years of experience to architect and own the infrastructure behind Basis' AI agents, which do real, end-to-end accounting work for some of the largest firms in the world. We want a hands-on, first-principles engineer with strong software skills who wants to build resilient systems from the ground up and set the reliability standards for a fast-growing, well-funded startup ($100M raised at a valuation over $1B).
What will you be doing?
- Architect, build, and operate secure production infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes that scales and stays reliable
- Own compute, storage, and networking, tuning for availability, performance, and cost
- Design CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation that speed up developers and make systems more reliable
- Lead incident response, including on-call, postmortems, root cause analysis, and SLOs/error budgets
- Mentor others and help shape the culture and standards of the infrastructure team
Key Requirements
- 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale, with a true SRE/infrastructure background (not ML engineering)
- Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes, plus platform engineering/DevOps
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and skill in at least one programming language
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and security; startup experience preferred
- Degree required, and able to work on-site in Flatiron, NYC 5 days a week (no relocation support)
About Basis
We started Basis with the core belief that agents would become an integral part of knowledge work in the near future, and that accounting would be among the first and most important domains where this happened. Accounting is structured, high-stakes, and essential to every business on earth. It's also one of the most underbuilt areas in technology.
Here we are 3 years later, and Basis can now complete a partnership tax workbook end to end. Basis' abilities improve monthly and the rate of improvement itself is increasing. Every day accountants use Basis to create complex journal entries, debug difficult reconciliations, prepare technical accounting memos, and much more. We're deploying real agents to do real work in the real economy.
The world is going to look very different in 2030, and accounting will be at the center of that transformation in ways most people don't yet appreciate. Read more about how we're thinking about the work.
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Job details
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000
Location
New York, United States
Experience
5+ years
Funding
Total raised
$137.6M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
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