BE Infrastructure / Platform Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Backend / Platform Engineer for a fast-growing AI infrastructure company in San Francisco, building data systems used by frontier AI labs to improve foundation models. The role is hands-on with high ownership, delivering end-to-end data collection, high-throughput pipelines, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, deployment and delivery.

You will work on distributed systems and data-heavy platforms where reliability and scale matter, building backend and platform

Responsibilities

• Build backend and platform infrastructure used in frontier model development
• Own Kubernetes, cloud and high-throughput data systems end-to-end
• Work across distributed systems, data pipelines and production delivery

Job description

I’m hiring a Backend / Platform Engineer to join a fast-growing AI infrastructure company in San Francisco building the data systems used by frontier AI labs to improve foundation models.

The role is very hands-on and high ownership. You’d be building backend and infrastructure systems end-to-end, from data collection and high-throughput pipelines through Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, deployment and delivery.

They’re particularly interested in engineers who have worked on difficult distributed systems, data-heavy platforms or infrastructure where reliability and scale really matter.

• Build backend and platform infrastructure used in frontier model development
• Own Kubernetes, cloud and high-throughput data systems end-to-end
• Work across distributed systems, data pipelines and production delivery