AI Platform Engineer

Tessera Labs; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tessera Labs in San Francisco is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design and own production-grade AI agent infrastructure across cloud providers. You’ll tackle Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, security, and reliability with clear ownership of architectural decisions.

The role is hands-on and senior, focusing on building scalable, secure systems that empower enterprise AI deployments. You’ll collaborate with product and platform teams to ship with velocity, while maintaining strict

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud infra engineering experience.
• Hands-on Terraform experience.
• Strong Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with Azure/Oracle Cloud/GCP/AWS.
• Proven CI/CD, pipeline architecture, GitOps deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own production-grade AI agent infrastructure across cloud providers.
• Be part of a team supporting Tessera’s AI infrastructure across every cloud provider.
• Own Azure or Oracle Cloud variant of Tessera’s cloud infrastructure; support GCP and AWS.
• Enable portable infrastructure across customer environments.
• Improve observability, security, and system reliability.
• Deploy and operate applications using Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Collaborate with product and platform engineers to unblock delivery.
• Design and build CI/CD pipelines; own end-to-end automation of build, test and deployment workflows.
• Build and maintain a reusable automation framework for DevOps workflows including provisioning, secret rotation, updates, compliance checks, release management.
• Automate operational runbooks and reduce manual work via scripts and self-service tooling.
• Advocate automation-first mindset; automate repetitive tasks and ensure observability.

Skills

Cloud Infra

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure

Oracle Cloud

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

GitOps

Automation scripts

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

FluxCD

ArgoCD

Bash

Python

Job description

AI Platform Engineer

About Tessera Labs

Tessera Labs is redefining how enterprises adopt and operationalize Artificial Intelligence. Backed by Foundation Capital and led by a world-class founding team, we build multi-agent AI systems that automate complex business workflows across platforms like SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, DataBricks, and more.

Our mission is simple but ambitious: bring real AI automation to the enterprise — with speed, precision, and measurable impact. We move fast, operate with extreme ownership, and build at the frontier of applied AI.

About the Team

The AI platform team builds and operates the foundational AI agent infrastructure that lets Tessera run reliably, securely, and consistently across customer environments. This includes a portable cloud infrastructure that makes each environment production-ready: container orchestration (Kubernetes), networking, and automation that ensures our product behaves the same regardless of the underlying cloud provider.

This is a high-impact role because it directly enables our ability to onboard and operate enterprise customer environments under strict security and compliance constraints while preserving developer velocity. The work reduces integration risk, standardizes operational practices across hyperscalers, and ensures product teams can ship safely without infrastructure becoming a bottleneck.

The Role

As an AI Platform Engineer, you’ll design and own production-grade AI agent infrastructure that supports Tessera’s AI systems across multiple cloud providers. You’ll work on everything from Kubernetes and Terraform to observability, security, and reliability with real ownership over architectural decisions.

This is a hands-on, senior IC role for someone who enjoys thinking deeply about systems and building AI agent infrastructure the right way.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade AI agent infrastructure

• Be part of a team that supports Tessera’s AI infrastructure across every cloud provider

• Build and be the primary owner of the Azure or Oracle Cloud variant of Tessera’s cloud infrastructure, also support GCP and AWS.

• Enable portable infrastructure across customer environments

• Improve observability, security, and system reliability

• Deploy and operate applications using Kubernetes and Terraform

• Partner closely with product and platform engineers to unblock delivery

• Design and build CI/CD pipelines, own the end-to-end automation of build, test, and deployment workflows for both infrastructure and application code

• Build and maintain a reusable automation framework for day-to-day DevOps and developer workflows, covering environment provisioning, secret rotation, dependency updates, compliance checks, and release management

• Automate operational runbooks and recurring processes, identify manual work across the engineering org and systematically eliminate it through scripts, pipeline stages, and self-service tooling

• Champion an automation-first mindset across the team, if something is done twice, it should be automated; if it's automated, it should be observable and maintained like production code

Must-Have Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience in Azure, Oracle Cloud, GCP or AWS

• Proven track record designing and owning CI/CD systems, pipeline architecture, GitOps-driven deployments, release automation, and pipeline-as-code practices expanded

• Experience building automation frameworks for DevOps and developer workflows, including scripting (Bash, Python, or similar), workflow orchestration, and self-service tooling that reduces manual intervention across engineering processes expanded

• Strong networking fundamentals

• Proven experience deploying and operating real production systems

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with FluxCD or other GitOps controllers (ArgoCD, etc.)

• Understanding of cloud security and DevSecOps, integrating security gates, SBOM generation, and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines

• Deep networking expertise - - duplicate from above

• A passion (and curiosity) about clean, unified infrastructure and best practices

• Experience with software development and SDLC and a builder mindset

Who You Are

• Somebody with a passion for learning new things and robust, reliable infrastructure

• Comfortable owning and defending complex AI agent infrastructure decisions

• Experienced in startups and/or big tech environments

• Highly self-motivated with a strong ownership mindset

• Someone who enjoys building foundational systems that other engineers rely on

Why Join Tessera Labs

• Work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure with real enterprise impact

• Own foundational systems at an early-stage, high-growth company

• Collaborate with a sharp, execution-focused founding team

• Shape how AI is deployed across the largest enterprise platforms in the world