Member of Technical Staff - SRE

About the role

Basis builds real agents that do real work in the real economy. Our agents operate for hours at a time, performing end-to-end work for some of the largest accounting firms in the world. We recently raised $100M at >$1B valuation and are racing to deploy the most advanced applied ML at production scale. Our investors include: Khosla Ventures (Keith Rabios & Vinod Khosla), Accel (Miles Clements), Google Ventures, Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Adam D'Angelo, Jeff Dean, Jack Altman, Noam Brown, Kyle Vogt, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue and many other operators/technical leaders.

"Basis is on the frontier of building production-grade, long-horizon agents. They've pushed the limits of what we thought our models could do on real-world, economically valuable, complex accounting tasks. They've been a great collaborator in helping us shape what the future of agents looks like."

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for our production systems.
• Own cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking, optimizing for availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation to improve developer velocity and system reliability.
• Lead incident response efforts, including on-call rotations, incident coordination, postmortems, and root cause analyses.
• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to balance reliability, performance, cost, and speed of development.
• Automate operational workflows such as capacity planning, safe rollouts, graceful degradation, and data access controls.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping shape the culture and standards of the infrastructure team.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and security principles.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, containerization, and modern infrastructure automation.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and taking ownership end-to-end.

Our Beliefs

• The builder stack collapses.
• Coding agents provide the ability to move across domains in ways that weren't possible before.
• You can offload more decision making to the agents inside your product meaning the lines between ML work and eng work start to disappear.
• Approx 20% of product engineering at Basis is teaching agents to tackle non-deterministic workflows. We see that being 70% by end of year.
• The distinctions between frontend vs. backend, infra vs. product, ml vs. eng are already melting away.
• Engineering > Coding.
• Anything that can be clearly defined and verified will be delegated to an agent.

The Kind of Engineer Who Does Well Here

• First principles and systems thinking.
• Thinking beyond the engineering.
• Understanding the domain deeply: the data systems, the workflows, the work our agents are performing.
• Ownership of outcomes.

Non-negatives

• In person in Flatiron, NYC 5 days a week.
• Excited about working with coding agents (we give every engineer an unlimited token budget).
• Excited about working at the frontier of applying agents to real economy problems.

Benefits at Basis

• Health & Wellness: Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage; Life Insurance; and 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health.
• Time off: Unlimited PTO + 12 paid company holidays.
• In-Office Perks: Daily meal stipends, a fully stocked kitchen, and $300 toward your custom desk setup.
• Financial Benefits: Pre-tax commuter benefits and 401(k) retirement plan.
• Team Culture: Monthly office activities and frequent optional team happy hours.
• Parental Leave.