AI Platform & Infrastructure Engineer, Deployed

Brain Co.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 293,793 - 403,966; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary plus equity

Daily lunches

Commuter benefits

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Brain Co., an applied AI startup in Abu Dhabi, is seeking an experienced engineer to design and scale Kubernetes and Terraform-based infrastructure. You will work on defining security standards, improving performance across distributed systems, and supporting high-performance data pipelines.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in backend systems, with strong skills in Kubernetes and Terraform. Benefits include competitive salary, equity, daily lunches, and unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building large-scale backend or infrastructure systems.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, orchestration, and observability tools.
• Experience with distributed systems, performance, and incident-response.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Define standards for security, networking, and CI/CD.
• Build and maintain metrics and logging.
• Improve performance across distributed systems.
• Support high-performance data pipelines and backend services.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud networking

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Job description

About Brain Co.

Brain Co. is an applied AI startup co-founded by Jared Kushner and Elad Gil, and backed by leading Silicon Valley builders including Patrick Collison and Andrej Karpathy.

We are building AI applications for the world’s most important institutions, delivering impact on real-world problems across governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries.

Our Progress So Far

• Automated construction permitting for a sovereign government → 80% faster, unlocking $375M+ in value
• Optimized supply chains for a leading global energy company → 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, preventing $100M+ in losses
• Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems → 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work

Company Momentum

• Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
• Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks

What You’ll Work On

• 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.

You Might Be a Great Fit If You…

• 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.

Why Join Us

• Ship quickly, iterate constantly and see your work deployed at global scale
• Collaborate with industry veterans from Tesla, DeepMind, Databricks, and more
• Accelerate your career with ownership based on impact, not tenure
• Earn competitive compensation + meaningful equity in a high-growth company
• Thrive in a culture built on speed, curiosity, and impact

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity
• Daily lunches
• Commuter benefits
• Unlimited PTO