Platform & Cloud Infra Engineer for Scalable AI

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

Job summary

Stealth AI Startup is seeking a highly technical Infrastructure / Platform Engineer in Palo Alto to design, build, and scale our cloud infrastructure and internal tooling. You will own the IaC environment, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and partner with software engineers to improve velocity and reliability.

Ideal candidates will have deep infrastructure expertise, strong software skills, and willingness to take on IT or SysAdmin tasks as needed in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering and hands-on coding skills; this is an engineering role, not primarily operations.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD systems, ideally with GitHub Actions and CircleCI.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, deployment patterns, and production systems.
• Ability to operate across Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Systems Engineering.
• Willingness to perform IT or SysAdmin work when needed.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure.
• Own and evolve our Infrastructure-as-Code environment, with a strong emphasis on Terraform or Pulumi.
• Design and implement performant, scalable, and secure CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Build and improve tooling across testing, deployment, observability, and release infrastructure.
• Partner closely with software engineers to improve developer velocity, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Identify infrastructure bottlenecks and build tooling and automation to eliminate repetitive operational work.
• Help establish best practices across cloud architecture, security, access management, reliability, and infrastructure operations.
• Take ownership of broader internal infrastructure needs when required, including occasional IT, systems administration, and internal tooling projects.

Skills

Software engineering

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD concepts

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps practices

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

Stealth AI Startup is seeking a highly technical Infrastructure / Platform Engineer in Palo Alto to design, build, and scale our cloud infrastructure and internal tooling. You will own the IaC environment, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and partner with software engineers to improve velocity and reliability.

Ideal candidates will have deep infrastructure expertise, strong software skills, and willingness to take on IT or SysAdmin tasks as needed in a fast-moving startup environment.