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title: 'Infrastructure Engineer at Shakudo'
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# Infrastructure Engineer at Shakudo

- **Company:** Shakudo
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/shakudo/0d649222-e4b4-4fe0-b3d1-348ec664805e

## Job description

At Shakudo, we're building the world's first operating system for data and AI. We use the term "operating system" in the truest sense: just like iOS, Windows, or Linux, Shakudo's end-to-end OS provides ever-evolving, fully automated, best-in-class open-source components tailored to each business's unique needs.

We are seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Business Automation team to own and operate the internal systems, infrastructure, and AI Gateway product that power Shakudo at scale. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives on keeping production systems reliable, secure, and fast. You will be responsible for everything from physical servers and DGX machines to CI/CD pipelines and customer-facing AI Gateway infrastructure. You will also contribute directly to product hardening, security, and DevOps practices across the platform.

At Shakudo, our culture is proactive, collaborative, and supportive — we succeed together by building strong partnerships and solving complex challenges. We expect high ownership: you will be hands-on, driving outcomes directly rather than delegating or waiting for direction. Individual contribution matters here — your work will have a visible, measurable impact on the company's operations and product.

## Key Responsibilities

- Maintain and operate internal services for the rest of the Shakudo employees, including proprietary applications for sales and ETL pipelines
- Maintain and operate DGX machines that host LLMs for the team's use
- Maintain and operate Shakudo's product for Shakudo's internal use, and contribute to product hardening, security, and DevOps practices
- Maintain and operate physical servers for Kubernetes clusters and ensure uptime
- Create CI/CD pipelines for internal deployments
- Maintain and operate the AI Gateway product for customers, ensure uptime, and contribute to product roadmap

## Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience across software, data, platform, or AI engineering roles
- 5+ years of strong experience with Kubernetes cluster operation and DevOps, and bare-metal server operations
- Experience operating production infrastructure at scale, including physical servers, GPU clusters, and CI/CD systems
- Strong background in security hardening, observability, and reliability engineering
- Proficiency in Rust is preferred
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, including LLM hosting and inference serving is preferred

## Why Shakudo Stands Out

Work with cutting-edge technologies in machine learning and high-performance computing. Contribute to a platform that transforms how organizations leverage data and AI. Join a dynamic team that values innovation, efficiency, and diversity.

Shakudo offers a high-impact package: competitive salary, meaningful equity so you share in the upside of transformational technology, and comprehensive health benefits that have you fully covered. We provide a flexible vacation policy—because building transformational technology requires supporting the people who build it. More importantly, you'll work on technology that matters.

This role is based onsite in Toronto to support the high security requirements of our clients and enable effective collaboration. We have a welcoming office environment with a very focused and passionate team, doing meaningful, impactful work together.

Shakudo is an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We foster diversity and inclusivity and welcome applications from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.

## About Shakudo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Shakudo provides an operating system for AI and data that orchestrates best-of-breed tools in a customer’s own infrastructure, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and govern AI agents without vendor lock-in.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; raised multiple rounds including a CAD 9.5M round in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Yevgeniy Vahlis (CEO & Co-founder) and Christine Yuen (Head of Engineering & Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / Enterprise software
- **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprises in retail, real estate, financial services, healthcare, aerospace, and automotive
- **Mission/purpose**: “Unlock the Potential of AI for All” – turning breakthrough ideas into real-world impact by making AI secure, sovereign, and easy to operationalize

## Products & Services
- **Shakudo Platform**: The core operating system that auto‑orchestrates 170+ AI and data tools (open‑source and commercial) in the customer’s own cloud or on‑prem environment. Provides a fully automated DevOps experience, cost management, and governance.
- **Kaji AI Gateway**: A secure gateway for deploying and managing autonomous AI agents with built‑in RBAC, OWASP Top 10 LLM risk mitigation, and container/PyPI/CRAN vulnerability scanning.
- **Stack Components**: A curated library of pre‑integrated AI/Data stack components (e.g., vector databases, LLM runtimes, data warehouses) that can be deployed with a single click.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total disclosed funding ~USD 10.6M (Seed $3.4M + Series A $7.2M) plus CAD 9.5M additional Series A in 2025; 36 employees (+2.6% YoY)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: GreatPoint Ventures, Wittington Ventures, Golden Ventures, Parade Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 2.6% YoY; 10 active job postings (monthly job posting growth +100%); customer wins include major Canadian food retailer, $77.6B AUM real estate firm; expanded into US market with an office

## Competitive Advantages
- **Tool‑agnostic platform** – customers can pick any AI tool without being locked into a single vendor
- **Runs in customer’s own infrastructure** (on‑prem, air‑gapped, private cloud) – critical for regulated industries and data sovereignty
- **SOC 2 Type II certified** with built‑in security features (RBAC, vulnerability scanning, OWASP LLM risk mitigation)
- **Dramatically reduces deployment cycles** – one customer cited a drop from 6‑month procurement to same‑day delivery

## Strategic Focus
- **Sovereign AI** – enabling enterprises to keep data in their own trusted environment while still leveraging cutting‑edge AI tools
- **Autonomous AI agents** – the platform is evolving to support agentic workflows and autonomous decision‑making
- **Scale from pilot to production** – offering executive briefings, hands‑on workshops, and embedded engineering support to accelerate enterprise AI adoption

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Talented and diverse people from all over the world” who love solving problems; emphasis on learning, growing, and succeeding together
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote opportunities available; some roles (e.g., Solutions Architect in Bengaluru) are on‑site; HQ in Toronto with offices in the US
- **Perks & Growth**: Provided training and innovative professional development; technical team makes up 28% of workforce, giving engineers a strong voice
- **Current openings** (as of late 2025/early 2026): Forward Deployed Engineer, Senior Software Development Engineer (Stack Team), Business Development Representative, Senior Engagement Manager, Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Solutions Architect

## Sources
1. [shakudo.io/careers](https://www.shakudo.io/careers)
2. [shakudo.io](https://www.shakudo.io/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/shakudo](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/shakudo)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/shakudo](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/shakudo)
5. [getclera.com/companies/shakudo](https://www.getclera.com/companies/shakudo)

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