Foundations Platform Engineer: Real-Time AI Infra

Rox; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rox is building an AI-native revenue operating system and seeks a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure and internal platform behind Rox’s agent runtime. You will work at the crossroads of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems to deliver reliable, scalable, and observable systems in production.

This role emphasizes end-to-end ownership—from primitives and runtime reliability to deployment workflows, tooling, and developer productivity,

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure and backend systems.
• Strong experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed backend systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), CI/CD, distributed systems, observability, and real-time data/streaming.
• Reliability, latency, and scalability considerations in production systems.
• Comfort debugging production systems across infrastructure and application layers.
• Bias toward shipping and learning from production, with a willingness to improve systems continuously.
• Ability to work across both platform and infrastructure domains depending on company priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core infrastructure powering Rox agents.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of distributed systems.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform tooling.
• Develop systems for real-time context ingestion and low-latency retrieval.
• Support execution frameworks for long-running agent workflows.
• Improve developer experience through automation, tooling, and self-service infrastructure.
• Partner closely with product engineers and forward deployed engineers to enable rapid iteration in production environments.
• Help establish engineering standards around monitoring, incident response, performance, and operational maturity.
• Ship production systems quickly and evolve them based on real-world usage.

Skills

Production infra

Cloud platform

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

CI/CD

Observability

Real-time data

Latency optimization

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Rox is building an AI-native revenue operating system and seeks a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure and internal platform behind Rox’s agent runtime. You will work at the crossroads of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems to deliver reliable, scalable, and observable systems in production.

This role emphasizes end-to-end ownership—from primitives and runtime reliability to deployment workflows, tooling, and developer productivity,