AI Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

Brain Co.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary plus equity

Daily lunches

Commuter benefits

401(k)

Medical, Dental and Vision

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale its core platform powering AI systems. The role involves designing Kubernetes and Terraform-based infrastructures, defining standards for security and performance, and ensuring reliability. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in backend or infrastructure systems, strong skills in distributed systems, and thrive in ambiguous environments. You'll enjoy benefits like competitive pay, equity, and a culture of speed and impact.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and scale infrastructure across customer environments.
• Define standards for networking, security, CI/CD.
• Build and maintain metrics, logging, dashboards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud networking

Orchestration tools

Observability tools

Distributed systems experience

Performance optimization

Incident response

Job description

About Brain Co.

At Brain Co., we build AI systems that power mission-critical workflows for some of the most important institutions in the world. Our platform is deployed in highly secure, high-stakes environments where reliability, performance, and strong engineering fundamentals are essential.

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Brain Co., you will build and scale the core platform that powers AI systems deployed inside some of the world’s most critical institutions — from government to energy and healthcare. Our platform runs in highly variable, high-stakes environments across cloud and on-prem settings, and your work will directly determine our reliability, performance, and ability to deliver for customers.

This is a foundational role on our Infrastructure/Platform team. You’ll work closely with engineering, AI/ML, and product to design scalable architectures, harden our environments, streamline deployments, and ensure the robustness required for enterprise and sovereign use cases.

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

• 401(k)

• Medical, Dental and Vision

• Unlimited PTO