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Conflation Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform & Infrastructure to own the RAG afig platform, multi-tenant architecture, and CI/CD pipelines. You will mentor a small team delivering AI coding agents and partnering with the CTO on architecture and strategic POCs.
You will design scalable architectures, drive platform generalization to new domains, and ensure robust monitoring and production readiness across tenants and city-scale deployments.
Senior IC role, reports to the CTO. Not a people-manager role. You partner with the CTO on architecture, scope new POCs and requirements into shippable work, and own delivery end-to-end. You own our RAG + agentic platform, our multi-tenant architecture, and the CI/CD pipelines that ship them. You mentor a small team of junior engineers who deliver primarily through AI coding agents — they orchestrate Claude Code and similar tools rather than writing most code by hand, and your job is to make that team's output good. THE CHALLENGE AHEAD Two parallel scaling paradigms will shape what you build:
Design with the CTO. Take POCs and new requirements, turn them into shippable architectures, decompose them into tasks for the team.
Own our RAG + agentic platform. Build, scale, and debug our RAG agents (site-plan agent, zoning agent, and the next ones). Find failure modes, fix them, ship new agents end-to-end. Generalize the platform to support domains beyond zoning.
Own multi-tenant architecture — tenant isolation, configuration, data separation. Make city N+1 a configuration change, not a rebuild.
Own CI/CD and delivery. Design, maintain, and scale the pipelines that ship features to staging and prod. Build testing infrastructure (integration, load, regression). Make sure features land with the right tests, pre-deploy checks, and post-deploy validation.
Develop "AI Studio" — a self-service portal for tenant onboarding, user management, and RAG configuration.
Implement tenant-level monitoring, observability, and alerting.
Triage and debug production issues; deliver incremental fixes for tenant-specific problems.
Mentor juniors who orchestrate coding agents. Our juniors don't write much code by hand — they scope work, prompt agents, review output. You raise their bar through code review, design discussion, and patterns for getting good results from agents.
6+ years building production software, with significant senior IC time.
Hands-on RAG experience — you have built, scaled, and debugged Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems in production. You know what breaks (chunking, retrieval recall, reranking, eval drift, agentic loops) and how to fix it.
Experience building or maintaining multi-tenant SaaS systems — tenant isolation, configuration, data separation.
Strong DevOps fundamentals — Docker, CI/CD pipelines, deploy automation, AWS (EC2/RDS/S3), GitHub Actions.
Comfortable orchestrating AI coding agents as a daily practice — and comfortable mentoring others to do the same.
Shipped LLM-backed product features at scale: prompt caching, evaluation, observability, cost tracking, graceful fallbacks.
Strong production debugging skills and a production-first mindset.
Familiarity with geospatial indexing and queries (PostGIS). We build agentic systems that convert natural language to spatial queries.
Familiarity with observability tooling — Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch.
Experience with GitOps and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).
Experience with vector databases at scale — pgvector, embeddings management, retrieval tuning.
Experience with RAG eval / observability tooling (Ragas, LangSmith, DeepEval).
We build AI-powered software for Planning department, AEC firms and local government.
Our product turns stacks of PDFs — zoning ordinances, site plans, fire codes — into structured, queryable knowledge that helps planners and architects move faster.
Multi-tenant, live in production for cities including Asheville and Berkeley.
Small team, high ownership, close collaboration with the CTO and senior engineers.