AI Platform Engineer
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Job description
- Build internal platforms and AI loops that increase company iteration speed
- Strengthen security, compliance, and operational readiness
- Improve CI/CD, testing, deployments, and developer environments
- Evaluate and implement new tooling, storage, and compute systems
- Enable non-technical staff to build and ship improvements safely
- Enable technical teams to ship scalable, enterprise-ready systems faster
- Resolve incidents and production fires with both immediate fixes and long-term solutions
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience; preference for ex-founders or founding engineers.
- Technical skills in Kubernetes, CI/CD, TypeScript, and Python are essential.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Self-sufficient, smart, and focused on customer happiness.
- Founders or those with strong product sense and a history of building and shipping products., * TypeScript and Python are primary languages; experience with web stack and Chrome extensions beneficial.
- Focus on enabling AI tools and infrastructure for rapid development.
Seniority
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5+ years of experience in platform engineering.
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Has shipped and maintained production platform infrastructure in a B2B SaaS environment -CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerization, cloud deployments, database migrations; has made painful mistakes and learned from them
Startup experience post-Series A; ideally Work experience
- has seen a company grow from Series A-B
Nice to have:
Previous experience as a founder or founding engineer is a great signal
Experience at a Martech or data/analytics tooling background (e.g., Ramp, PostHog, Rippling, Amplitude, Segment) - they understand horizontal B2B products and have seen comparable platform problems
Education
Nice to have
Degree from a top-tier university (e.g., Stanford). But needs degree.
Hard skills
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud infra familiarity (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure) and with deployment, reliability, rollbacks, and monitoring
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AI-first engineering mindset - can set up dev tooling (Devin, Claude Code, remote environments) so every engineer can ship with AI assistance
- We re looking for AI Platform Engineers to build the foundations of our engineering stack - from AI productivity and deployment to monitoring, security, and cost optimization. This is one of the highest-impact and highest-responsibility roles in the company. Your work will increase the productivity of every team and shape how we build going forward.
You re a great fit if you have:
- Built and scaled complex infrastructure systems
- Worked with Kubernetes, ETL pipelines, AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Cloudflare, CI/CD, and SOC 2 environments
- Strong judgment across security, reliability, cost, and iteration-speed tradeoffs
- Been operating at the edge of AI-first development for some time
- Learned practical lessons from decades of enterprise-grade engineering patterns
- Strong opinions on how old systems should be improved or replaced
- High ownership and comfort working across many domains
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