Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About Boltz

About the role

About you

Essentials:

• Strong experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production environments.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, with a track record of designing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested systems.
• Experience designing and scaling APIs and services used by external users or internal teams.
• Proficiency with modern backend tooling, such as Python and/or TypeScript, and experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres).
• Hands-on experience with cloud and containerized environments (e.g. AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfortable collaborating across engineering, research, and product to translate requirements into robust systems.
• Willingness to take ownership of critical infrastructure and make pragmatic trade-offs under real-world constraints.

Nice to have:

• Experience supporting or integrating machine learning systems (e.g. inference services, batch pipelines, or training workflows).
• Exposure to scientific computing, computational biology, or chemistry workflows.
• Experience designing data pipelines for large, complex, or high-throughput datasets.
• Familiarity with operating systems under constraints such as latency, cost, uptime, and rapid iteration.
• Prior experience working in an early-stage or fast-moving startup environment.

What we offer

• Opportunity to drive outsized real-world impact by building tools that empower thousands of scientists across the industry.
• Work alongside one of the most talent-dense teams in the field.
• Significant ownership and independence, with responsibility for driving projects from concept to deployment.
• Highly competitive salary with substantial equity ownership.