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# AI Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Maintainx Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Pulumi, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, Backend, AI Platforms, Terraform
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/fcb748c1-b840-496d-b948-203ed19ae9ed

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in Python backend development + systems design experience.
 * Experience shipping AI-powered or LLM-integrated backend systems.
 * Comfort working across multiple layers (services, data, infrastructure, AI tooling).
 * Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure) and IaC (Terraform/Pulumi).
 * Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous processing.
 * Have familiarity with AI or data-heavy services where reliability and cost matter at scale.

## Description

* Build and operate scalable backend services and internal APIs for the AI platform.
 * Integrate LLMs and AI tool execution into reliable, production-ready workflows.
 * Own production reliability for AI platform infrastructure through observability, alerting, and incident response.
 * Improve performance and cost efficiency of AI runtimes through profiling, tuning, and capacity planning.
 * Contribute to shared infra: CI/CD, observability, deployments


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