Senior Platform Engineer: AI & Automation

Talentify; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentify is seeking Senior Associate Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of scalable engineering platforms, with strong backend/frontend capabilities and AI-enabled practices. The role focuses on automation, reusable components, and developer experience to accelerate software delivery in a hybrid, multi-location environment.

You will guide platform modernization using cloud-native architectures, IaC, and AI agents while collaborating across engineering, product, and platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related field of study or equivalent, relevant work experience
• 3-5+ years of experience in platform engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, automation engineering, or related disciplines.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern programming languages, cloud-native technologies, automation frameworks, and engineering platforms.
• Proven experience designing and delivering scalable platform solutions, shared services, automation frameworks, reusable components, developer tools, and self-service capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives and driving adoption of engineering best practices across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of scalable engineering platforms, products, and shared services.
• Architect reusable APIs, SDKs, frameworks, and self-service capabilities.
• Establish platform standards and drive modernization and cloud-native adoption.
• Implement governance guardrails for secure, compliant software delivery.
• Partner with teams to deliver enterprise solutions and improve developer experience.
• Lead development of intelligent automation solutions across the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle.
• Architect scalable automation frameworks, AI services, and platform capabilities.
• Drive adoption of automation-first and AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Define standards for AI agents and intelligent workflows.
• Collaborate with teams to embed automation across engineering ecosystems.
• Lead development of AI-powered engineering capabilities, autonomous workflows, and developer experiences.
• Architect and implement AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and agent-based solutions.
• Integrate LLMs, prompt engineering, context engineering, MCP, and RAG capabilities.
• Define standards and best practices for AI-enabled engineering.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and establish scalable adoption patterns.
• Lead initiatives that improve developer experience through self-service platforms and enablement capabilities.
• Define standards for developer workflows and reusable templates.
• Drive platform adoption through technical leadership and enablement.
• Enhance engineering workflows using feedback and operational insights.
• Advocate developer-centric platform design and engineering excellence.
• Lead integration of platform capabilities into engineering workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and operations.
• Design highly available, resilient, scalable, and observable platform solutions.
• Define deployment standards, governance controls, and reliability practices.
• Implement observability, operational intelligence, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.
• Drive adoption of IaC and cloud-native architectures.
• Use operational metrics to improve platform performance.
• Design and implement platform-wide security controls and governance capabilities.
• Establish secure-by-design practices and automated compliance controls.

Skills

Platform Architecture

Platform Products

DevEx & Self-Service

APIs/SDKs/Frameworks

Intelligent Automation

AI-enabled Engineering

Cloud-Native

IaC

DevOps & CI/CD

SRE & Reliability

Observability & Monitoring

Security & Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Talentify is seeking Senior Associate Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of scalable engineering platforms, with strong backend/frontend capabilities and AI-enabled practices. The role focuses on automation, reusable components, and developer experience to accelerate software delivery in a hybrid, multi-location environment.

You will guide platform modernization using cloud-native architectures, IaC, and AI agents while collaborating across engineering, product, and platform