Member of Technical Staff - Platform Foundations
Reflection7 months ago
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain golden paths for cloud projects, networking, and access patterns.
- Ship secure defaults and guardrails that make safe infrastructure usage easy.
- Build and operate networking primitives including routing, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity.
- Establish baseline observability and operational hygiene across services and infrastructure.
- Own developer infrastructure including build systems, caching, and test infrastructure.
- Drive cloud cost visibility and reduction through tooling, guardrails, and optimization.
- Provide reliable, scalable developer infrastructure and SRE capabilities across the company.
Requirements
- Strong infrastructure or platform engineering background with experience shipping production-grade systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one of cloud platforms, network engineering, security architecture, or developer tooling, with working knowledge across the others.
- Experience navigating complex multi-team environments, debugging difficult infrastructure problems, and building for reliability and scale.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate clearly across research and infrastructure teams.
- Motivation to build new systems and secure, self-service foundations for open-weight AI systems.
Benefits
- Top-tier compensation with salary and equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Fully paid parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
- Financial support for family planning.
- Paid time off.
- Relocation support.
- Lunch and dinner provided daily.
- Regular off-sites and team celebrations.
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About Reflection
Reflection is a New York–based, privately held research lab developing open foundational AI models and agentic coding tools for developers, enterprises, and public-sector users. The team includes former researchers from DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and their work focuses on transparent, customizable systems that organizations can deploy with ownership and control.