Senior Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Cloud Infra

Speedrun Talent Network; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Senior engineer, you independently design and implement solutions to well-scoped but complex problems, re-architect components, adopt new technologies, and improve existing processes with minimal guidance. You'll build agents that handle incident triage, environment provisioning, config generation, and developer self-service, and you'll partner with Staff engineers and your manager to align your work with the team's broader technical direction.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in cloud infrastructure with large-scale, high-availability distributed systems.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading well-scoped platform initiatives within your team.
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI-driven systems in production, including agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AI agents in production, following governance patterns for model selection, evaluation, and safety.
• Implement agentic patterns for cloud infrastructure and refine best practices for production AI agents.
• Operate high-availability distributed systems on AWS with AI-driven observability and automated remediation where valuable.
• Contribute to the evolution of Cortex as an AI-augmented self-service platform for engineers.
• Document agentic architecture and participate in on-call rotations to improve reliability.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Mentoring

CI/CD

AI systems

Python

Go

GitOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS / Engineering

Tools

AWS

EKS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

LangChain

Job description

As a Senior engineer, you independently design and implement solutions to well-scoped but complex problems, re-architect components, adopt new technologies, and improve existing processes with minimal guidance. You'll build agents that handle incident triage, environment provisioning, config generation, and developer self-service, and you'll partner with Staff engineers and your manager to align your work with the team's broader technical direction.