Senior Platform Engineer - AI Infra & Production

Prime Intellect, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work (remote or SF office)

Full visa sponsorship and relocation

Professional development budget

Team off-sites and conferences

Job summary

Prime Intellect, Inc. in San Francisco / Bay Area is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to own and advance our infrastructure across compute, networking, IAM, and security.

You will build reusable IaC, scale CI/CD pipelines, and set guardrails to accelerate teams from research ideas to production. You will partner with research and product engineering to remove bottlenecks, define observability standards with Grafana, and own platform SLOs and reliability priorities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or security-focused engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, and CI/CD.
• Experience designing secure software delivery lifecycle environments from development through production.
• Production experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Ability to debug across infrastructure layers and make sound trade-offs under ambiguity.
• Clear technical communication and a track record of leading cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

• Build reusable infrastructure-as-code and reliable CI/CD workflows for platform services.
• Design cloud foundations spanning compute, networking, identity, secrets, and service delivery.
• Develop progressive rollout, health-check, and rollback patterns for critical infrastructure.
• Build self-service platform capabilities, templates, and guardrails that shorten the path from code to production.
• Partner with research and product teams to remove delivery bottlenecks and turn recurring needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Define practical observability standards across metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting using tools such as Grafana.
• Define and own platform SLOs, partnering with service teams on targets, error budgets, and reliability priorities.
• Turn security and compliance requirements into reusable platform controls.
• Lead complex platform projects from technical design through adoption and steady-state operation.

Skills

Terraform

Cloud networking

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cross-functional leadership

Debugging across layers

Technical communication

Tools

Grafana

Job description

Prime Intellect, Inc. in San Francisco / Bay Area is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to own and advance our infrastructure across compute, networking, IAM, and security.

You will build reusable IaC, scale CI/CD pipelines, and set guardrails to accelerate teams from research ideas to production. You will partner with research and product engineering to remove bottlenecks, define observability standards with Grafana, and own platform SLOs and reliability priorities.