Senior Platform / Systems Engineer

Nestria Ai Northstar Ai Shield Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestria AI is seeking a Senior Platform / Systems Engineer in Singapore to lead the development and hardening of the core runtime platform. This role focuses on secure deployment workflows, scalable infrastructure, and customer-ready platform capabilities within a fast-moving startup.

You will collaborate closely with the founders to shape product direction, engineering culture, and pilot deployments while implementing reliable AI workflows and orchestration across cloud, VPC, and on-prem

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field; strong backend fundamentals.
• Experience designing/operating production-grade systems and APIs.
• Solid cloud, containers, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and hardening of the core runtime platform and gateway services.
• Design and improve secure deployment workflows for multiple environments.
• Build and maintain backend architecture for AI agents and observability.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines, testing workflows, releases, and packaging.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and reliability tooling.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, latency, and fault tolerance.
• Support integration with enterprise systems and internal tools.
• Develop secure engineering practices around authentication and secrets.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python/Go/Java/Node.js

Cloud infrastructure

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Security hardening

System design

Startup environment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Observability tools

Job description

Location : Singapore
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement : Hybrid / on-site, depending on project needs
Compensation : Competitive base compensation, aligned with experience and role scope
Work Eligibility : Applicants must have the right to work in Singapore

About Nestria AI

Nestria AI is a Singapore-based high-assurance agentic AI startup building reliable, secure, and enterprise-ready AI systems for regulated and IP-sensitive industries. Our platform helps enterprises deploy agentic AI safely through runtime assurance, observability, verification workflows, secure orchestration, and customer-ready deployment environments.

We are building a creative, collaborative, and curiosity-led culture where people are encouraged to challenge the status quo, communicate openly, move with ownership, and support each other with empathy and respect.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Platform / Systems Engineer to lead the development and hardening of our core runtime platform. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building reliable backend systems, secure deployment workflows, scalable infrastructure, and customer-ready platform capabilities in a fast-moving startup environment.

As an early team member, you will work closely with the founders and have the opportunity to shape the product, engineering culture, and customer-facing platform as the company grows.

Key Responsibilities

Lead development and hardening of the core runtime platform, including gateway services, backend services, orchestration components, and integration layers.

Design and improve secure deployment workflows for customer-like environments, including cloud, VPC, on-premise, and restricted network setups.

Build and maintain backend architecture components that support AI agents, runtime assurance workflows, verification layers, and observability.

Set up and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing workflows, release processes, and deployment packaging.

Implement system monitoring, logging, tracing, performance metrics, and reliability tooling.

Optimise platform performance, scalability, latency, and fault tolerance.

Support integration with enterprise systems, APIs, databases, model providers, and internal tools.

Develop secure engineering practices around authentication, secrets management, access control, networking, and environment configuration.

Prepare technical documentation, deployment guides, and engineering handover materials for pilots and customer engagements.

Work closely with AI engineers to ensure AI workflows can run reliably within the platform.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field.

Master's degree is preferred.

Strong backend engineering experience with Python, Go, Java, Node.js, or similar languages.

Experience designing and operating production-grade systems, APIs, services, and distributed applications.

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Experience with observability tools, logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance optimisation.

Familiarity with secure deployment practices, authentication, networking, secrets management, and system hardening.

Ability to work independently in a startup environment with high ownership and limited structure.

Strong debugging, system design, and technical problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

Experience with AI platforms, LLM applications, agentic AI systems, MLOps, or model-serving infrastructure.

Experience with on-premise, air-gapped, or enterprise-restricted deployment environments.

Familiarity with security engineering, compliance, runtime monitoring, or enterprise governance tools.

Experience building developer platforms, internal tools, or orchestration systems.

What We Look For

Strong curiosity to learn and build in a fast-changing AI environment.

Startup mindset, high ownership, and willingness to wear multiple hats.

Clear thinking, practical execution, and comfort working through ambiguity.

Strong culture add: openness, collaboration, empathy, and constructive challenge.

Interest in building reliable AI systems that enterprises can trust and deploy.

Why Join Us

Work directly with the founding team of a deep-tech AI startup.

Work on high-impact problems in reliable AI, agentic AI, AI governance, security, and enterprise automation.

Gain exposure to customer pilots across regulated and IP-sensitive industries.

Join at an early stage where your work will directly shape the product and company direction.

Be part of a creative, collaborative, and curiosity-led culture that values openness, empathy, ownership, and constructive challenge.