Senior JVM Platform Engineer & AI Reliability

Agency; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Agency seeks a Platform Engineer to support AI model infrastructure within a Java-centric environment. You will tackle platform engineering tasks and help models reason about scalability, reliability, and performance outcomes.

The role requires strong expertise in JVM services, distributed systems, and cloud-native deployments, with clear written communication essential for explaining complex system behaviors and design decisions.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of systems thinking, architectural design, and performance engineering.
• Expertise in JVM-based services and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-native deployments and enterprise-grade architectures.
• Strong written communication skills to explain system behavior and design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Engage AI models on Java-centric infrastructure and platform engineering tasks.
• Verify architectural decisions for concurrency, latency, throughput, and resource use.
• Assess infrastructure and application-level testing strategies.
• Analyze deployment and reliability risks.
• Capture reproducible failure modes and provide structured feedback to improve model reasoning.

Skills

JVM-based services

Distributed systems

Cloud native deployments

Performance engineering

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science or related discipline

Hands-on enterprise Java experience

Experience in platform engineering / SRE / DevOps-adjacent roles

Job description

Agency seeks a Platform Engineer to support AI model infrastructure within a Java-centric environment. You will tackle platform engineering tasks and help models reason about scalability, reliability, and performance outcomes.

The role requires strong expertise in JVM services, distributed systems, and cloud-native deployments, with clear written communication essential for explaining complex system behaviors and design decisions.