Member of Technical Staff - SRE
Basis Ai
| Company | Basis Ai |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | New York |
| Remote | On-site |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | USD 100k–300k |
| Posted | 13 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (ashby) |
Description
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ABOUT BASIS
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 Rabois & 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." — Prashant Mital, Applied AI Lead, OpenAI
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.
This is a hands-on role for an engineer who loves building robust systems, reducing complexity through automation, and taking real ownership. While your primary focus will be infrastructure and reliability, strong software engineering skills are essential. As a growing startup, we value engineers who are comfortable wearing multiple hats and jumping in wherever they can have the biggest impact.
If you’re excited about building resilient systems from the ground up and shaping reliability practices at a fast-growing company, we’d love to work with you.
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.
Experience with similar stack (or ability to learn unfamiliar technologies) :
- Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Observability and incident management tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, BetterStack, PagerDuty, SLOs/error budgets).
- Data and systems powering analytics and customer-facing workloads, especially in serverless environments. (e.g., Neon, Modal)
OUR BELIEFS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF TECHNICAL WORK:
We believe that as agents become more capable, two themes are emerging:
The builder stack collapses
- Coding agents provide the ability to move across domains in ways that weren't