Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven DevOps & Tools

SanDisk; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

STI Plan

LTI Program

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

SanDisk in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build scalable internal platforms, tools, and automation for engineering teams. You will work across cloud and on‑prem environments, partnering with security and infra to reduce toil and improve delivery.

You will set technical direction, design reusable CI/CD frameworks, and implement agentic AI workflows with strong safeguards. Eligible for STI and LTI programs and a broad benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or platform engineering experience with Python and production developer tools.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines or reusable workflow platforms at scale.
• APIs integration and automation that is testable, observable, and resilient to failures.
• Experience with AI- or LLM-based workflow automation or agentic systems.
• Strong security practices including least privilege, secrets management, and auditable automation.
• Proven ability to improve developer experience and drive cross-team platform capabilities.
• Strong communication and technical leadership, with mentoring ability.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate developer-facing tools and self-service workflows (CLIs, APIs, automation).
• Design and evolve CI/CD frameworks and workflows across GitHub Actions and platforms.
• Build Python integrations with source control, issue tracking, artifacts, releases, and infra services.
• Develop agentic AI workflows connecting approved models to internal data and tools.
• Ground AI results in approved sources and evaluate workflow quality and reliability.
• Apply safeguards to AI/automation workflows including least privilege and audit trails.
• Build security automation into developer workflows (vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement).
• Improve platform reliability with testing, logs, metrics, tracing, retries, idempotency, and rollback paths.
• Support hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure, CI runners, container platforms, AWS, Terraform-managed infra.
• Set platform standards, guide architectures across teams, mentor engineers, document decisions.

Skills

Python

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps tooling

Platform engineering

Security best practices

Mentoring engineers

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Grafana/Datadog

Job description

SanDisk in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build scalable internal platforms, tools, and automation for engineering teams. You will work across cloud and on‑prem environments, partnering with security and infra to reduce toil and improve delivery.

You will set technical direction, design reusable CI/CD frameworks, and implement agentic AI workflows with strong safeguards. Eligible for STI and LTI programs and a broad benefits package.