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title: 'Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Serval'
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# Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Serval

- **Company:** Serval
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$325k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Serval/dedc8cf0-cbf5-4335-ae46-c3e8e6de9c8d/application

**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, Networking, Databases, Containerization, Kubernetes Cluster Management, CI/CD, Temporal, Kafka

> Design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure-as-code for Serval's AI agents and workflow automation platform. The role focuses on enabling self-hosted deployments, ensuring high availability, and providing technical support to enterprise customers.

## Job description

## Who We Are

[Serval](http://serval.com) is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate. We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end — replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations.

At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows. Our agents don’t just respond to requests — they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage. What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering.

Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation. Long term, we’re building the universal AI operations layer — a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving.

We’re backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and others.

## Role Overview

Serval is building an AI platform to automate complex IT workflows for modern enterprises. As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure, you'll build and scale the foundational systems that power Serval's AI agents and workflow automation platform. A critical part of this role is enabling and supporting self-hosted deployments for enterprise customers who require on-premises or private cloud installations. This role is for engineers with deep expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure-as-code, production operations, and customer-facing infrastructure support who want to shape the technical architecture of a fast-growing platform.

## What You'll Do

- Design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed systems that power Serval's AI agents, workflow orchestration, and data pipelines.
- Write and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure environments.
- Build and maintain deployment packages, installation scripts, and infrastructure templates that enable customers to self-host Serval in their own environments.
- Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to enterprise customers deploying and operating self-hosted instances of Serval.
- Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production systems through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning.
- Build internal tools and platforms that enable product engineers to deploy, test, and operate services efficiently.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable architectures that support both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployment models.
- Profile and optimize system performance, including compute, storage, networking, and database layers.
- Implement security best practices and ensure infrastructure meets enterprise compliance requirements for both managed and self-hosted deployments.

## What You'll Need

- 3+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
- Strong experience writing and maintaining Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
- Experience building, packaging, and supporting self-hosted or on-premises software deployments for enterprise customers.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages for building automation, tooling, and infrastructure services.
- Strong understanding of networking, databases, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration systems.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to customers and provide infrastructure support and guidance.
- Ability to debug complex system issues, analyze performance bottlenecks, and implement effective solutions.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Kubernetes in production, including cluster management and workload orchestration.
- Background in CI/CD systems, build pipelines, and deployment automation.
- Experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal, including long-running workflows, retries, and failure handling.
- Experience with data infrastructure (streaming systems like Kafka, data warehouses, ETL pipelines).
- Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).
- Experience supporting enterprise customers with complex deployment requirements.
- Previous work at a high-growth startup or experience scaling infrastructure rapidly.

## What We Offer

- Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.
- Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors. Grow rapidly with the company.
- Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.

## About Serval

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: IT Service Management (ITSM), Enterprise Software, AI-powered Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B; IT, Security, HR, and Workplace teams at mid-market and enterprise organizations
- **Mission statement**: “Reimagining the employee support experience” by helping everyone get out of the help desk and back to the work they enjoy.

## Products & Services
- **Serval Platform (AI-Native ITSM)**: A unified help desk, access management, and automation platform. Includes AI agents (Help Desk Agent, Automation Agent, Insights Agent) that handle requests, provision access, answer knowledge base questions, and surface workflow suggestions. Supports natural-language workflow creation, code-based workflows with no-code UI, and flexible deployment (cloud, hybrid, self-hosted).
- **Access Governance & Provisioning**: Manages access requests for any app, resource, or role with customizable policies, approvals, just-in-time provisioning, and automatic deprovisioning via SCIM, API, or AI-generated workflows.
- **Asset Management**: Automatically reconciles data from MDM, procurement, IdP, and HRIS into a single source of truth.
- **Knowledge Base**: Built-in docs with sync from Notion, Google Drive, Confluence; AI agent surfaces answers instantly.
- **Compliance & Security**: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliant; SIEM integration; role-based access control; auditor-friendly logging.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1 billion (post-money, as of Series B in December 2025)
- **Total Funding**: $127 million
  - Seed (Oct 2025): $5M
  - Series A (Nov 2025): $47M led by Redpoint
  - Series B (Dec 2025): $75M led by Sequoia Capital
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Redpoint, and other top-tier investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 494.7% year-over-year (from ~10 to 58 employees); 43 active job postings; expanding into UK, Malaysia, Switzerland; high-profile talent from ServiceNow, Verkada, Rippling, Scale AI.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Entire platform built around AI agents, not bolted-on AI. Workflows created via natural language.
- **Code-based workflows with no-code simplicity**: Workflows stored as code (Git-friendly) but editable in a UI – appeals to both engineers and non-technical teams.
- **Flexible deployment**: Cloud, hybrid, or fully self-hosted – rare for modern SaaS, attractive to regulated enterprises.
- **Compliance out of the box**: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, SIEM integration – reduces friction for enterprise sales.
- **Two-way sync with existing ticketing systems**: Low migration barrier; can integrate with current tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to build out AI agent capabilities, access governance, and workflow automation.
- **Go-to-market**: Scaling sales and customer success teams (mid-market and enterprise); building brand as the “AI platform for employee support.”
- **Global reach**: Opening presence in Europe and Asia to serve multinational clients.
- **Hiring aggressively**: 43 open roles across engineering, sales, marketing, design, and customer success.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “elite team of builders and sellers” with a focus on stunning colleagues; “Work hard. Celebrate often.”
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Headquarters in San Francisco; roles likely hybrid or on-site (many postings indicate location). Some remote-friendly roles may exist.
- **Notable perks**: Working on a generational company; fast-growing startup with strong funding; opportunity to define the AI-native ITSM category.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on code-based workflows, Git integration, and AI agent development. Strong technical team with alumni from top companies (ServiceNow, Verkada, Rippling, Scale AI).
- **Growth trajectory**: 494.7% headcount growth YoY, $1B valuation, recent Series B – high momentum and opportunity for impact.

## Sources
1. [serval.com](https://www.serval.com/)
2. [serval.com/careers](https://www.serval.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/getserval](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getserval)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/serval](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/serval)
5. [serval.com/serval-news/serval---operating-principles](https://www.serval.com/serval-news/serval---operating-principles)

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