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# Senior Platform Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

- **Company:** Handshake
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $205,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, User Authentication, Key Management, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Deployment, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Backend, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=22598b313c50a968

## About the Role

* 5-6+ years of backend and infrastructure engineering experience
 * Hands-on experience deploying applications into enterprise environments - VPC deployments, on-prem, and self-hosted configurations
 * Deep understanding of enterprise security requirements: data segregation, access controls, compliance frameworks
 * Experience working directly with external customers in a deployment or field engineering context
 * Strong operational mindset - you care about reliability, observability, and repeatability at scale
 * Comfort in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the requirements are defined as you go

Extra Credit

 * Experience at an infrastructure company that offers self-hosted or on-prem deployment options
 * Familiarity with authentication, secrets management, and zero-trust networking
 * Experience building internal deployment tooling or platform abstractions that improved team velocity
 * Background working alongside applied AI or ML systems in production environments

## Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you'll own the infrastructure layer that makes everything else possible. Enterprise customers don't want their data in shared infrastructure - they want AI applications deployed inside their own environments, on their terms. You'll be the engineer who makes that happen, reliably and at speed.

You'll design and execute deployment patterns across VPC, on-prem, and self-hosted configurations, work directly with customer IT and security teams, and build the tooling that makes each new deployment faster than the last. Without you, nothing ships.

This is a founding-team level role with real technical complexity and direct customer impact - building the platform that Handshake AI Enterprise runs on.

 * Own the infrastructure and deployment layer for AI applications shipped into enterprise customer environments
 * Design and execute VPC, on-prem, and self-hosted deployment patterns across varying enterprise security requirements
 * Work directly with customer IT and security teams to navigate compliance, data residency, and access control constraints
 * Build tooling and automation that makes deployments repeatable and reliable across customers
 * Collaborate closely with Product and Applied AI engineers on your deployment team
 * Identify systemic gaps in infrastructure or process and lead initiatives to address them, reducing friction for future deployments
 * Define the platform playbook for Handshake AI Enterprise as we scale to more customers and more complex environments


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