Platform Engineer: AWS & Kubernetes Infrastructure

Simple AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Equity terms

SF office

Health, dental & vision

Free lunch & dinner

Late night Uber trips

Team events & offsites

Job summary

Simple AI, a SF-based voice AI startup, seeks a Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure behind real-time conversations. You’ll run Kubernetes and AWS in production, design scalable, reliable systems, and work directly with founders to ship robust infrastructure.

You’ll build reusable modules, improve deployment pipelines, and help manage cost and performance as the product scales in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes and AWS in production.
• Strong Terraform experience, including modules and safe changes.
• Good knowledge of Linux, containers, networking, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes, including EKS, networking, IAM, load balancing, and secrets management.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules and environments for development, staging, and production.
• Build deployment workflows with automated checks, visibility, and reliable rollbacks.
• Design autoscaling and graceful shutdown for long-running voice services.
• Improve observability with dashboards, alerts, and latency metrics.
• Investigate production issues and address recurring problems at their source.
• Partner with app/AI engineers to deploy services and manage infra costs.
• Make it easier for engineers to provision resources and debug services safely.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Distributed systems

Python/Go/TS

Ownership & comms

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Helm

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Job description

Simple AI, a SF-based voice AI startup, seeks a Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure behind real-time conversations. You’ll run Kubernetes and AWS in production, design scalable, reliable systems, and work directly with founders to ship robust infrastructure.

You’ll build reusable modules, improve deployment pipelines, and help manage cost and performance as the product scales in a fast-growing environment.