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Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer

  • Remote, United States
  • Senior
  • Posted 6 days ago
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Platform engineering role on a team building the core backend for an AI agent platform; backend services, infrastructure automation and reliability work.

About the role

Remote-friendly setup with a small founding team of engineers from search and distributed systems backgrounds. The work is about keeping the platform fast, observable and dependable as it scales.

At a glance

Pay
Not stated in the posting
Remote scope
Remote, United States
Seniority
Senior
Skills
Java, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, Prometheus, Grafana
Posted
29 Oct 2026
Last checked
2 Nov 2026

What you will do

  • Build and run secure backend services and shared platform pieces.
  • Own infrastructure automation, CI/CD and monitoring pipelines.
  • Lead design and code reviews, and mentor other engineers.
  • Work with product and research teams to run ML and NLP workloads.

What they look for

  • At least five years as a software engineer, mostly on backend and platform work.
  • Fluent in Java and Python.
  • Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Experience with cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure or on-prem) and observability tools.
  • Has supported ML workloads in production and built distributed systems.

Nice to have

  • Familiar with Kafka, Spark or Airflow data tooling.

Benefits

  • Full-time staff receive equity in the company.

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