Platform Engineer

Notchup; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT Services is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to scale its infrastructure. The role involves building and maintaining data services for creative tools, focusing on speed and reliability. Ideal candidates will have expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and real-time collaborative environments.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in managing content across collaborative environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools.
• Practical use of AI/ML models in production.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for platform layer.
• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability.
• Ensure systems meet high availability targets while allowing rapid iteration.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Real-time sync

Infrastructure-as-code

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We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure. You’ll build and maintain the data and services powering our creative tools, ensuring speed, reliability, and scale. Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments and orchestration of agentic APIs and data flows through these environments.

Location: Preference for SF/Bay Area, CA. Open to remote candidates in North America & Western EU.

What You'll Do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for platform layer
• Design and evolve infrastructure for our AI-assisted, collaborative tools at scale
• Lead the implementation of backend services and APIs with a focus on security, modularity, and performance

Responsibilities

• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and system health tooling
• Ensure our systems meet high availability targets ("four nines") while remaining flexible for rapid iteration
• Integrate 3rd-party services including AI pipelines, payments, analytics, and user auth
• Collaborate across product, design, and ML to translate creative tooling needs into backend capabilities
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, WebSockets, WebTransport, and realtime sync
• Optimizing schema and large data sets for use by LLMs
• Architecting and deploying multi-tenant systems with strong role, permission, and tenant isolation
• Managing schema migrations and cross-environment data synchronization safely
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools
• Practical use of AI/ML models in production (e.g., inference pipelines)
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, creative environment with a highly interdisciplinary team

Bonus Qualities

• Experience with 3D tools or creative platforms
• Passion for building creative tools and empowering artists

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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