Senior AI Platform Engineer - Scale Production AI

Apollo Solutions; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo Solutions in Boston partners with a leading financial services firm to hire a Senior AI Platform Engineer who will scale and evolve its production AI platform. You will design and build scalable backend services, manage Kubernetes workloads, implement CI/CD, and ensure security, logging, and observability to support AI at scale across the organization.

You will collaborate with cloud, security, and application teams to deliver production-ready, reliable AI capabilities across the business.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software/platform/infrastructure engineering or related field.
• Strong software engineering experience using Python or TypeScript.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production-grade applications or platform services.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS or Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD automation.
• Experience building highly available, secure, and resilient systems.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, observability, and operational best practices.
• Experience troubleshooting production incidents and performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance a production AI platform supporting 1,000+ users.
• Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and platform components for AI-enabled apps.
• Build services managing interactions between apps, LLMs, and AI providers.
• Implement secure integrations between AI apps, enterprise systems, and data sources.
• Develop reusable tooling and platform capabilities to accelerate AI app development.
• Improve platform architecture, performance, reliability, and scalability as adoption grows.
• Deploy, operate, and support AI services in production environments.
• Maintain Kubernetes-based workloads and containerized platform services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operational processes (IaC, CI/CD).
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting across services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production performance and reliability issues.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, and app engineering teams to deliver production-ready AI capabilities.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and security controls across platform services.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and contribute to platform architecture decisions.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Distributed Systems

CI/CD

Observability

Security

AI Infra

Job description

Apollo Solutions in Boston partners with a leading financial services firm to hire a Senior AI Platform Engineer who will scale and evolve its production AI platform. You will design and build scalable backend services, manage Kubernetes workloads, implement CI/CD, and ensure security, logging, and observability to support AI at scale across the organization.

You will collaborate with cloud, security, and application teams to deliver production-ready, reliable AI capabilities across the business.