Senior Platform Engineer

Farsight; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Farsight AI in Manhattan, New York, is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure for our AI products used by premier financial institutions. This in‑person role is based in NYC four days a week, with Fridays remote to support flexible collaboration.

You will architect and deploy cloud infrastructure (AWS), optimize CI/CD, and build infrastructure‑as‑code (CDK/CloudFormation).

Qualifications

• 4+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or related fields.
• Experience with AWS services and hybrid deployments.
• Ability to collaborate with developers to align infra with product needs.
• Knowledge of security/compliance in regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Streamline and optimize CI/CD platform for rapid deployments.
• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation).
• Develop monitoring, logging, and observability strategies.
• Ensure infrastructure adheres to security standards and compliance.
• Manage large-scale microservice architectures and their communication.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency, cost optimization, and performance improvements.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud Security

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps

GCP/Azure

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

About Farsight AI

Farsight is the agentic AI platform for financial services, currently helping investment banks and private equity firms fully automate entire, highly nuanced workflows. Today, institutions will spend 80% of their time gathering information for and creating first drafts of materials by hand before iterating on and refining their decks, models, and pitches. We not only give them that time back to focus on what is important, but we also bring new insights and knowledge to their materials that they wouldn’t be able to uncover without the help of our financial‑focused AI.

Our Team

Our team has had a wide range of experience that uniquely equips us to capture this massive opportunity. Our team comes from leading financial institutions like Evercore, General Atlantic and Menlo Ventures, supercharged by scalable engineering and AI skills from companies including Amazon, Hugging Face and the MIT Media Lab. We’ve learned the ins and outs of building successful startups from previous work as founders and founding engineers. We focus on hiring the best so that we can become the best, so we hope you apply!

We are entirely based in Manhattan, New York City, and are in‑person 4 days a week (except Fridays, which are remote).

Job Description

As a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer at Farsight AI, you’ll lead the design, implementation, and management of infrastructure critical to delivering our cutting‑edge AI products. Your work directly impacts premier financial institutions, enabling scalable, reliable, and secure deployments.

You will:

• Architect, deploy, and manage robust cloud infrastructure to support advanced generative AI workloads at scale.
• Streamline and optimize our CI/CD platform to maintain rapid and reliable deployments.
• Design and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (AWS CDK, CloudFormation) for repeatable and scalable deployments.
• Develop comprehensive monitoring, logging, and observability strategies to maintain high system availability.
• Ensure infrastructure adheres to rigorous security standards and compliance requirements.
• Manage and orchestrate large‑scale microservice architectures and their associated communication protocols.
• Proactively identify areas for infrastructure improvements, including efficiency, cost optimization, and performance enhancements.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and hybrid deployments within regulated industries.
• 4+ years experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
• Extensive experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, RDS, IAM, SSM).
• Proven expertise in containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, gRPC).
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipeline creation and management (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Ability to collaborate closely with developers to ensure infrastructure aligns with product requirements.
• Independent problem‑solver, motivated to improve efficiency and solve complex infrastructure challenges.
• GCP and Azure experience is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $140,000 to $180,000 annually, commensurate with experience.
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Unlimited PTO.

Equal Opportunity

Farsight AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will also be considered in accordance with applicable laws.