# Software Engineer, Infastructure at Outtake

- Company: Outtake
- What the company does: Outtake is Next-Generation Digital Risk Protection. Agentic search across your full surface, workflows you control, intelligence that compounds with every takedown. Backed by CRV and ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://outtake.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/outtake/62200017-3aee-4ace-b430-33e3ef973fd1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/outtake-software-engineer-infastructure/

## About the role

This is a staff-level infrastructure generalist role. You will set the technical direction of Outtake’s infrastructure and build the systems that support our next orders of magnitude of growth. The role begins as an individual contributor position; experience growing and leading infrastructure teams will be valuable as the function scales.

## What they're looking for

- Experience operating at staff scope: identifying important technical problems, setting direction across team boundaries, and leading complex projects from design through adoption
- A track record of designing and building distributed infrastructure systems used by other engineers or products
- Experience scaling production systems through significant increases in data volume, traffic, or workload complexity
- Deep knowledge of relational database architecture, including data modeling, access patterns, indexing, partitioning, sharding, caching, and migration
- Experience building or evolving high-throughput asynchronous systems, with a strong understanding of scheduling, ordering, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and partial failure
- Experience with large-scale search and retrieval systems, including the tradeoffs among lexical search, vector retrieval, indexing speed, freshness, relevance, and cost

Tags: Engineering