Member of Technical Staff, Platform - AI Infrastructure

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; United States; On-site; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health care

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to design, build, and operate customer-facing Kubernetes and cloud services for high-growth data center environments. You will develop control planes, operators, and APIs, while automating lifecycle management and strengthening multi-tenant security and observability.

You will work closely with customers and Product to define platform capabilities and own the deployment stack from development through production,

Qualifications

• Built customer-facing infrastructure products or managed cloud services.
• Experience building distributed systems, control planes, operators, or controllers.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and cluster lifecycle management.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or a similar language.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, containers, networking, storage, and security.
• Experience building reliable multi-tenant services and public APIs.
• Led complex infrastructure work from design through production.
• Experience using coding agents to build production software.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate managed Kubernetes and other customer-facing infrastructure services.
• Build control-plane services, Kubernetes operators, and controllers.
• Automate managed-service lifecycle, including cluster creation, version upgrades, configuration changes, and safe deletion. Coordinate with Fleet for capacity.
• Build APIs and tools that customers use to deploy, manage, and monitor workloads.
• Integrate orchestration with compute, networking, storage, identity, and security systems.
• Improve service availability, isolation, performance, observability, and upgrade safety.
• Work directly with customers and Product to define and deliver new platform capabilities.
• Use coding agents throughout design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operations.
• Participate in on-call and own the systems you build in production.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Kubernetes internals

Go/Python/Rust

Linux/Networking/Storage/Security

Multi-tenant services

Production ownership

Coding agents

Job description

Keen to join a company that champions growth and development?

Join a high-growth infrastructure company that scales specialized hardware within data center environments for advanced artificial intelligence workloads. The organization builds robust cloud platforms that expose high-performance hardware as elastic compute via developer-friendly interfaces. Its technology enables software teams to develop agentic capabilities and deploy complex, long-running AI models.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate managed Kubernetes and other customer-facing infrastructure services.
• Build control-plane services, Kubernetes operators, and controllers.
• Automate managed-service lifecycle, including cluster creation, version upgrades, configuration changes, and safe deletion. Coordinate with Fleet for the underlying capacity.
• Build APIs and tools that customers use to deploy, manage, and monitor workloads.
• Integrate orchestration with compute, networking, storage, identity, and security systems.
• Improve service availability, isolation, performance, observability, and upgrade safety.
• Work directly with customers and Product to define and deliver new platform capabilities.
• Use coding agents throughout design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operations.
• Participate in on-call and own the systems you build in production.

Skills/Must Have:

• Built customer-facing infrastructure products or managed cloud services.
• Experience building distributed systems, control planes, operators, or controllers.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and cluster lifecycle management.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or a similar language.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, containers, networking, storage, and security.
• Experience building reliable multi-tenant services and public APIs.
• Led complex infrastructure work from design through production.
• Experience using coding agents to build production software.

Desirable Skills:

• Built a managed Kubernetes, Slurm, inference, database, or container service.
• Built Kubernetes schedulers, operators, admission controllers, CNI plugins, or CSI plugins.
• Worked on bare-metal, HPC, or AI compute infrastructure.
• Built private networking, workload isolation, or enterprise identity features.
• Operated macOS or Apple Silicon infrastructure at scale.
• Built infrastructure that software agents can operate safely.

Benefits:

• Equity, Health Care etc

Salary:

• $250,000 Base Salary