AI Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

Jobtailor; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 260,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United Arab Emirates seeks a senior backend infrastructure engineer to design and scale Kubernetes- and Terraform-based infrastructure across customer environments.

You will define standards for networking, security, CI/CD, and multi-region deployments, and build metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and SLOs. Join a high-agency team delivering reliable, high-performance infra for AI workloads and large-scale backends.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building large-scale backend or infra systems.
• Experience with distributed systems and scalability.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform and cloud networking.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale Kubernetes- and Terraform-based infrastructure across customer environments.
• Define standards for networking, security, CI/CD, and multi-region deployments.
• Build and maintain metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and SLOs.
• Diagnose and improve performance across distributed systems and AI workloads.
• Support high-performance inference, data pipelines, and large-scale backend services.
• Ensure systems scale reliably under fast-growing workloads.
• Partner with technical leaders on architecture and mentor engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Performance

Incident response

Engineering standards

Customer collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Autonomy

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design and scale Kubernetes- and Terraform-based infrastructure across customer environments.
• Define standards for networking, security, CI/CD, and multi-region deployments.
• Build and maintain metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and SLOs.
• Diagnose and improve performance across distributed systems and AI workloads.
• Support high-performance inference, data pipelines, and large-scale backend services.
• Ensure systems scale reliably under fast-growing and unpredictable workloads.
• Partner with technical leaders on architecture and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years building large-scale backend or infra systems.
• Know Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, orchestration, and observability tools.
• Bring strong distributed systems, performance, and incident-response experience.
• Work well with customers and teams to deliver reliable solutions.
• Thrive in high-agency environments and set engineering standards.
• Enjoy ambiguity, autonomy, and solving tough infra problems.