Senior AI Platform Engineer - Developer Experience

PepsiCo Inc.; Purchase (NY); On-site; USD 94,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

PepsiCo Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build and operate an internal platform that enables teams to deliver agent orchestration solutions with high velocity and low operational risk.

The role treats the platform as an internal product—providing self-service golden paths and API-driven automation to reduce cognitive load and improve delivery consistency. You will own provisioning environments, deploying services, gateway exposure, and observability with SLO-based reliability, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in ML/CS/Engineering or equivalent experience required.
• Master’s preferred
• 8 year experience with AI/DS/ML required.
• Proven experience building internal platforms / developer tooling and operating production services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain API-driven self-service capabilities that allow delivery teams to deploy and operate services/workflows with reduced lead time and stack complexity.
• Design and deliver golden paths (paved roads) for common workflows, reducing cognitive load and improving compliance by default.
• Provide standardized environment templates (non-prod/prod) with tenant isolation patterns and secure defaults; minimize drift via code-reviewed configuration and drift detection.
• Implement secure-by-default platform guardrails (approved base images, default policies, standard logging/metrics/traces) to reduce operational risk and audit gaps.
• Provide reusable CI/CD templates and promotion gates (build, test, security scans, deploy) that delivery teams can adopt with minimal customization, increasing delivery consistency.
• Establish standardized rollout/rollback practices and deployment verification steps as part of the golden paths.
• Define and operationalize SLIs/SLOs for platform services; ensure telemetry export (metrics/logs/traces) and actionable runbooks for incidents and rollbacks.
• Partner with SRE/operations to support availability, latency, performance, change management, monitoring/alerting, and emergency response for platform services.
• Run continuous feedback loops with platform users to refine platform experiences, improve golden paths, and publish adoption/usage insights.
• Deliver enablement: documentation, examples, onboarding playbooks, and office-hours to increase adoption and reduce ticket-based ops.

Skills

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Security-by-default

Developer enablement

Education

Bachelor's in ML/CS/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

IaC

Job description

PepsiCo Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build and operate an internal platform that enables teams to deliver agent orchestration solutions with high velocity and low operational risk.

The role treats the platform as an internal product—providing self-service golden paths and API-driven automation to reduce cognitive load and improve delivery consistency. You will own provisioning environments, deploying services, gateway exposure, and observability with SLO-based reliability, while