# Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Descript

- Company: Descript
- What the company does: Descript is the AI video and audio editor that makes editing as easy as editing text. Record, transcribe, edit, and publish in one tool. Try it free. Backed by a16z and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.descript.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote, US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $292K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/descript/jobs/7987057003?gh_jid=7987057003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/descript-software-engineer-infrastructure/

## About the role

AI and agent tooling is the clearest example. You will contribute to how models are trained and served here, as well as how agents work inside our codebase: the environments they run in, the verification that makes their output trustworthy, and the review paths that keep it all legible. There is no industry standard and you’ll help form our opinions rather than inheriting one.

## What they're looking for

- You have 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems, or equivalent server-side engineering with a heavy infrastructure focus
- You effectively leverage agents to multiply your impact and think critically about how and when to harness AI in your work
- You've run systems where failure was expensive, and your opinions about reliability and deployment come from consequences rather than reading
- You've carried a pager, commanded an incident, and rolled back before you understood why
- You use SLOs and error budgets as operating tools
- You’ve used a major cloud provider and Kubernetes in production, with infrastructure-as-code as your default

Tags: Engineering