Lead AI Platform Engineer — DevEx & CI/CD

8451; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 125,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with Roth option

PTO and company holidays

Job summary

84.51° in Cincinnati is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help scale AI‑assisted development across 84.51° and Kroger. You will design platform infrastructure, deployment automation, and a prompt/skill marketplace to shorten onramps and boost velocity across many delivery teams.

This is a hands‑on, platform‑oriented role demanding technical leadership, production‑quality code, and the ability to communicate value to both technical and business audiences.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in a technology related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience producing high‑quality software on Agile development teams (Python preferred).
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud technologies (Azure preferred).
• 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevEx, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Familiarity with AI‑related concepts such as LLMs, Agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Strong experience with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or equivalent.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated experience working across technical teams and non‑technical business units.
• Desire to learn new technology and grow across different areas of technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and build deployment automation for AI workforce tooling — including Agentic Harness configurations, MCP server or similar service‑level integrations, and related CI/CD pipelines
• Define and enforce standards for AI tooling configuration, security posture, and observability across teams – often via direct enhancements to the coding harness hook and plugin layers
• Ensure accurate observability of AI tooling adoption and usage patterns using Datadog, Dynatrace, or related tools
• Own and evolve the internal prompt and skill marketplace — enabling teams to publish, discover, version, and reuse prompts, skills, and MCP tools across the enterprise
• Develop workflow playbooks that codify AI‑SDLC integration patterns for consistent, repeatable adoption across engineering teams
• Work directly with delivery teams to embed AI tooling into their development workflows, translating friction and capability gaps into scalable platform improvements
• Regularly document and present learnings from platform work and team engagements to the broader AI Enablement organization
• Engage with technology, infrastructure, and product teams as necessary to integrate and extend AI workforce tooling
• Participate routinely in team on‑call rotation and customer support during business hours

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Agile development

Communication skill

Public cloud Azure

Education

4-year degree in a technology related discipline

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

Spacelift

Helm

Job description

84.51° in Cincinnati is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help scale AI‑assisted development across 84.51° and Kroger. You will design platform infrastructure, deployment automation, and a prompt/skill marketplace to shorten onramps and boost velocity across many delivery teams.

This is a hands‑on, platform‑oriented role demanding technical leadership, production‑quality code, and the ability to communicate value to both technical and business audiences.