Staff Platform Engineer
Robots and Pencils1 day ago
Base Salary
$126k - $174k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define DevOps strategy and infrastructure architecture across multi-environment, multi-region cloud systems.
- Architect and own scalable Kubernetes platforms and containerized infrastructure.
- Establish infrastructure-as-code standards and lead DevSecOps practices including secrets management, compliance, auditing, IAM, and zero-trust networking.
- Drive platform reliability, performance SLAs, observability, cost optimization, cloud migrations, and modernization initiatives.
- Design and operate AI/ML platform infrastructure including model serving, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateways, vector stores, and AI/ML deployment pipelines.
- Partner with engineering, product, and leadership; lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and release-readiness assessments.
- Establish platform standards, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, act as a technical escalation point, and evaluate emerging technologies.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional DevOps or platform engineering experience, including leadership of complex platform initiatives.
- Expert scripting and programming skills in technologies such as Python, Go, Java, or Bash.
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform, Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD architecture at scale.
- Strong DevSecOps, secrets management, compliance, auditing, networking, IAM, security architecture, and zero-trust experience.
- Experience with service mesh, distributed systems, microservices architecture, and AI/ML platform infrastructure.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder communication, and ability to navigate ambiguous technical and business challenges.
- Demonstrable daily use and expert knowledge of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor.
- Cloud certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or CKA, and FinOps experience, are preferred.
- Experience designing and provisioning HPC cluster infrastructure across AWS, CoreWeave, GCP, and OCI is helpful.
- Experience with HPC job schedulers and workload managers such as Slurm is helpful.
Benefits
- Remote role based in the US.
- Salary range of $126,000 USD to $174,000 USD.
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, vision insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Employment may be conditional on successful completion of a background check.
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