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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Platform Engineer - **Company:** DTEL Engineering & Consultants Inc - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Database Migration, Containerization, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Virtual Agents, Docker - **Published:** July 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a2b1a5d1-f47e-4462-a6ac-c6f8274c0c8b ## About the Role * 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 * 5+ years of experience in platform engineering. * 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 * 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 ## 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 ## Related Videos - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Fireside Chat with Cloudflare's Chief Strategy Officer, Stephanie Cohen (with Mike Butcher MBE)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1366-fireside-chat-with-cloudflare-s-chief-strategy-officer-stephanie-cohen-with-mike-butcher-mbe) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [AI Won't Fix Your Engineering Culture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100266-ai-won-t-fix-your-engineering-culture) - [Microservices: how to get started with Spring Boot and Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/242-microservices-how-to-get-started-with-spring-boot-and-kubernetes) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [Stephan Gillich - Bringing AI Everywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/489-stephan-gillich-bringing-ai-everywhere) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Transforming Software Development: The Role of AI and Developer Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/527-transforming-software-development-the-role-of-ai-and-developer-tools)