Founding Data & Cloud Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a hands-on AI/ML platform engineer in the Palo Alto area to design and operate data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. You will own ingestion, processing, and deployment layers, build orchestration across training, inference, and evaluation, and help shape the technical strategy with the founders.

Strong Python/SQL, production pipelines, and cloud tooling are essential. You will collaborate across teams to deliver scalable APIs, robust monitoring, and secure,

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Data pipelines: Build ingest, process, transform pipelines for models.
• Cloud infrastructure: Stand up compute, storage, networking, deployment.
• Orchestration: Connect ingestion, training, inference, evaluation, serving.
• Operational foundations: Establish CI/CD, monitoring, logging, alerting.
• Application layer: Contribute to APIs and services on the platform.
• Technical strategy: Make foundational architectural decisions with founders.

Skills

Python & SQL fundamentals

Production data pipelines

Cross-stack debugging

Engineering judgment

REST/GraphQL/gRPC knowledge

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

Postgres

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a hands-on AI/ML platform engineer in the Palo Alto area to design and operate data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. You will own ingestion, processing, and deployment layers, build orchestration across training, inference, and evaluation, and help shape the technical strategy with the founders.

Strong Python/SQL, production pipelines, and cloud tooling are essential. You will collaborate across teams to deliver scalable APIs, robust monitoring, and secure,