Senior AI Platform Engineer: Scalable AI Infra

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MaintainX, a leading mobile-first work execution platform, is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer in San Francisco. You will design and operate internal services that standardize how AI workloads run in production, enabling teams to ship AI-powered products reliably at scale.

You will own production reliability for AI platform infrastructure, improve performance and cost efficiency, and contribute to shared infra like CI/CD and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Python backend development with systems design experience.
• Experience shipping AI-powered or LLM-integrated backend systems.
• Comfort across services, data, infrastructure and AI tooling.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IaC.
• Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous processing.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate scalable backend services and internal APIs for the AI platform.
• Integrate LLMs and AI tool execution into production workflows.
• Own production reliability for AI platform infrastructure with observability and incident response.
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of AI runtimes through profiling and capacity planning.
• Contribute to shared infra: CI/CD, observability, deployments.

Skills

Python backend development

Systems design

AI-powered backend

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

MaintainX, a leading mobile-first work execution platform, is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer in San Francisco. You will design and operate internal services that standardize how AI workloads run in production, enabling teams to ship AI-powered products reliably at scale.

You will own production reliability for AI platform infrastructure, improve performance and cost efficiency, and contribute to shared infra like CI/CD and observability.