Staff Platform Engineer

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Senior Platform Engineer designing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and AI/ML platforms for an applied AI engineering firm. Driving DevSecOps, reliability, and platform strategy across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, driving quality and reliability across delivery workflows
  • Architect and implement cloud-native infrastructure solutions for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
  • Design and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads at scale
  • Implement and own infrastructure as code across environments
  • Drive observability, performance optimization, and alerting across production systems
  • Implement DevSecOps practices including security scanning, secrets management, and access control
  • Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
  • Design and operate AI/ML platform infrastructure, including model serving and deployment, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateway and observability, vector store infrastructure, and CI/CD for AI/ML systems
  • Use tools like Claude, Cursor, and other modern AI assistants to ship higher-quality work at pace
  • Collaborate with engineering, QA, and product teams across the full SDLC to align infrastructure with delivery goals
  • Communicate technical tradeoffs and infrastructure decisions across functions
  • Participate in design reviews, sprint ceremonies, and release planning
  • Lead platform work end-to-end with growing ownership of infrastructure strategy
  • Contribute to platform standards and best practices that improve reliability and consistency
  • Begin mentoring junior engineers, sharing knowledge and supporting their growth

Requirements:

  • 5–7 years of professional DevOps or platform engineering experience with growing ownership of infrastructure
  • Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
  • Hands-on cloud expertise across at least one major platform with multi-service understanding
  • Strong Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
  • Strong infrastructure as code expertise
  • Strong CI/CD pipeline design and ownership experience
  • Experience with observability stacks
  • Experience with networking, security, and IAM in cloud environments
  • Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems architecture
  • Experience with AI/ML platform infrastructure, including model serving and deployment, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateway and observability, vector store infrastructure, and CI/CD for AI/ML systems
  • Demonstrable, day-to-day usage of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguous technical challenges with sound judgment
  • Deep hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and the ability to design, build, and maintain reusable AWS CDK constructs
  • Successful completion of a background check may be required
  • Experience with service mesh, multi-cloud or hybrid environments, or a cloud certification is a plus

Benefits:

  • Paid time off
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)