Member of Technical Staff - SRE

About the role

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Basis, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our AI-powered accounting platform. You’ll join a high-leverage infrastructure team that sits at the intersection of product and platform, owning the systems that keep Basis fast, secure, and always on as we scale.

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.
• The distinctions between frontend vs. backend, infra vs. product, ml vs. eng are already melting away.
• Engineering > Coding.
• Many of the problems we solve are net new. There's no playbook.

Non-negotiables

• 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.