Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Unstructured.io
$190-250k
3 days a week in office
Data prepping for Large Language Models
Open for applications
Data prepping for Large Language Models
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$190-250k
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give organizations access to all of their data.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience building and operating infrastructure or site reliability systems at scale
- Expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform, etc.)
- Strong Python skills and deep understanding of distributed systems architecture
- Proven leadership across multi-team technical strategy and high-stakes decision making
- Passion for debugging, systems thinking, and driving infrastructure simplicity
- Excellent communicator—you bring clarity to complexity and inspire confidence across teams
Desirable
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, unstructured data workflows, or real-time data pipelines
- Deep knowledge of observability tooling, production readiness, or platform security
- Startup DNA—you move fast, operate well in ambiguity, and thrive when ownership is high
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a player-coach to lead infrastructure at Unstructured
- This role is perfect for a Principal Infrastructure Software Engineer ready to mentor or a hands-on Director who still loves to build
- You’ll own our cloud infrastructure and internal platforms, mentor engineers, and set the direction for how we scale securely and efficiently
- As a key technical leader, you will own organization-level infrastructure design and reliability strategies, large-scale infrastructure challenges
- Your work will be foundational to scaling our systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and security across our stack
- Infrastructure Leadership: Own and drive the architecture and design of scalable, resilient infrastructure systems across the organization. Define and influence infrastructure strategy in alignment with product and business goals
- Strategic Projects: Lead cross-functional, high-impact infrastructure initiatives involving compute, networking, storage, and orchestration. Provide deep technical guidance and mentorship across engineering, platform, and DevOps teams
- Systems Problem Solving: Solve persistent and complex infrastructure problems at scale. Drive root cause analysis, mitigation strategies, and proactive risk reduction across systems
- Hands-On Engineering: Contribute directly to the design, implementation, and optimization of core infrastructure. Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, automation, and production readiness for mission-critical systems
- Mentorship & Enablement: Mentor engineers and promote a culture of operational excellence, automation, and reliability. Act as a force multiplier by raising infrastructure engineering standards and best practices across teams
- Cross-Team Alignment: Ensure consistent, simple, and scalable infrastructure designs that enable fast-moving product teams. Resolve escalations related to performance, uptime, or platform dependencies and prevent long-term architectural bottlenecks
- Organizational Impact: Shape how we build, deploy, and operate our systems now and in the future. Make foundational decisions that impact developer experience, cloud strategy, and platform capabilities
- This role is hybrid in San Francisco—join us in-office 3x a week for deep collaboration, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on impact
Our take
Unstructured.io is tackling a prevalent challenge in AI adoption - the difficulty of integrating complex, enterprise-sized data with Large Language Models (LLMs). The company's platform provides a solution by extracting and staging all data, even that which is in difficult-to-use formats, and making it compatible with LLMs.
Thus, the startup streamlines the time-consuming data preparation process, providing tools for otherwise complex tasks like removing unwanted elements, text concatenation, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It also tailors processing pipelines for specific document types, addressing a critical bottleneck in AI development workflows.
In enabling the seamless integration of LLMs with enterprise data, Unstructured.io's platform has the potential to unlock substantial productivity gains. As of 2023, it boasted over 700,000 downloads, and will continue to develop its pioneering solution to the data preparation bottleneck which will be critical for addressing evolving industry demands.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $65m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian S. Raymond
(CEO)Previously worked in Investment Banking at Harris Williams & Co. Prior to this they worked at The White House in the National Security Council and as an Intelligence Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Matt Robinson
(Head of Product)Previously a Machine Learning Engineer at Rebellion Defense, a Solutions Engineer/Director at Primer.ai, and a Data Science Manager at Capital One.
Crag Wolfe
(Head of Engineering)Previously the Director of Engineering at Primer.ai. They also worked at Red Hat as a Python Developer and at Ricoh Innovations as a Web Architect.
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