Senior AI Cloud Engineer & Platform Architect

G-P; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

G-P is seeking a hands-on technical leader to elevate the engineering bar across teams in Seattle. You will partner with engineering managers and senior engineers to improve architecture, design, code reviews, CI/CD, and infrastructure while continuing to ship production code and drive complex initiatives.

This role goes beyond diagrams; you will build scalable systems, implement practical guardrails, and guide teams to make strong technical decisions without bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in architecture.
• Founding Engineer with startup scaling experience.
• Ability to influence multiple teams without formal authority.
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
• Deep expertise in AI systems, backend or distributed systems, infrastructure and cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and technical leads on complex system-design decisions.
• Lead technical designs, RFCs, architecture reviews, and critical code reviews.
• Build and ship production systems across AI, backend, cloud, infrastructure, and full-stack applications.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Create reusable platforms and paved roads for teams.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical quality through hands-on leadership.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Influence across teams

Hands-on technical leadership

Full-stack development

AI systems expertise

Tools

Python

Go

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

G-P is seeking a hands-on technical leader to elevate the engineering bar across teams in Seattle. You will partner with engineering managers and senior engineers to improve architecture, design, code reviews, CI/CD, and infrastructure while continuing to ship production code and drive complex initiatives.

This role goes beyond diagrams; you will build scalable systems, implement practical guardrails, and guide teams to make strong technical decisions without bottlenecks.