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# Platform Engineer (Founding Team)

- **Company:** Ai, Inc
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Data Streaming
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0ca8d093-4eca-4b70-9db9-0448368e82b1

## About the Role

* At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful ownership of production systems. Actual level will be based on scope and judgment, not title alone.\\n
 * Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to reason about architecture, distributed systems, APIs, data flows, security, reliability, and operational tradeoffs.\\n
 * Experience operating systems in production and judgment shaped by real incidents, scale constraints, imperfect information, and competing business needs.\\n
 * A record of broad ownership in an earlier-stage or high-growth company, ideally Series B/C or earlier. Founding, first-platform-hire, or Staff-level scope is especially relevant.\\n
 * The ability to move between architecture and implementation: define the approach, write the code, debug the system, and improve the engineering practice around it.\\n
 * High communication ability and EQ. You explain tradeoffs clearly, ask good questions, receive feedback without ego, and build trust across technical and nontechnical teams.\\n
 * Comfort working on-site in New York City five days per week in a small, high-accountability environment.\\n