Senior AI Platform Engineer (Remote)

Porch Group; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 169,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Remote work

Competitive pay

Long-term incentive programs

401(k) with match

Job summary

The Porch Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer - AI Platform to lead AI-first platform work across production infrastructure. You will design systems enabling agents and LLMs to perform real work, from scheduling to data extraction, while owning the PHP app, AWS/ECS, and MySQL/Aurora data layer.

You will build end-to-end AI features, operate multi-agent orchestration, and drive scalable, observable, secure software with strong leadership and code-review contributions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years producing production software with ownership of scalable systems.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-backed features including orchestration and RAG.
• Strong PHP 8.x skills in a high-traffic codebase.
• Deep AWS architecture experience with ECS and infrastructure as code.
• Expert MySQL/Aurora knowledge with performance tuning.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals and API design.

Responsibilities

• Build AI features end to end: retrieval, context engineering, tool calls, and evaluation harnesses.
• Design and operate multi-agent orchestration, with state, memory, retries, and guardrails.
• Own ECS container platform: autoscaling, blue/green deploys, long-running services and workers.
• Architect AWS pipelines (Lambda, SQS/SNS/EventBridge) and IAM/network as code.
• Integrate AI capabilities into PHP codebases without destabilizing products.
• Drive database performance across MySQL/Aurora with indexing and migrations.
• Lead code reviews, design docs, mentoring, incident response, and on-call.

Skills

PHP 8.x

AWS ECS

Terraform

CDK

MySQL/Aurora

Distributed systems

Observability

Security

Communication

Go

Kubernetes

Tools

ECS

Terraform

CDK

MySQL

Job description

The Porch Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer - AI Platform to lead AI-first platform work across production infrastructure. You will design systems enabling agents and LLMs to perform real work, from scheduling to data extraction, while owning the PHP app, AWS/ECS, and MySQL/Aurora data layer.

You will build end-to-end AI features, operate multi-agent orchestration, and drive scalable, observable, secure software with strong leadership and code-review contributions.