Principal AI Platform Architect (Remote)

Frontdoor Defense; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Strong benefits package

Open-source collaboration

Job summary

Mirantis is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the architecture for the AI gateway, control plane, and model serving on Kubernetes. You will lead a senior, remote-first team, drive data-plane strategy, and ensure policy-based routing with per-request metering and audit records.

You will influence design decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with customers and partners, including in Kubernetes and ML-infrastructure spaces. Strong Go, Python, and CI/CD skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or distributed systems, including several as technical lead.
• Shipped multi-service systems that enterprises run in production, including software they install themselves.
• Expert Kubernetes: operators, CRDs, scheduling, Helm, and debugging at scale.
• Production experience with GPU workloads, LLM inference, or AI gateways.
• Expert Go, strong Python, and solid CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Leads through writing and influence, uses AI-assisted development tools fluently, and thrives with autonomy on a distributed team.
• Nice to have: Inference performance work, AI gateway or LLM routing, enterprise first deployments.

Responsibilities

• Owns the architecture across the AI gateway, control plane, model serving, identity, metering, and observability for hosted and installed editions.
• Lead the gateway strategy, including data plane choice and per-request metering with audit records.
• Set direction for LLM serving on Kubernetes: GPU scheduling, autoscaling, multi-tenant serving, cost per token.
• Define how enterprises run the product: Helm installs/upgrades, air-gapped networks, preflight checks, supply-chain security.
• Run design reviews, make build-vs-buy decisions, document ADRs.
• Build hands-on in the critical path, mentor senior engineers, including AI-assisted development.
• Collaborate with design partners/customers and represent Mirantis in Kubernetes/ML-infra communities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Python

CI/CD

AI infra

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

CRDs

GPU workloads

Job description

Mirantis is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the architecture for the AI gateway, control plane, and model serving on Kubernetes. You will lead a senior, remote-first team, drive data-plane strategy, and ensure policy-based routing with per-request metering and audit records.

You will influence design decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with customers and partners, including in Kubernetes and ML-infrastructure spaces. Strong Go, Python, and CI/CD skills are essential.