Senior Platform Engineer, AI/ML Backend & Cloud Infra

True Talent Solutions Partners; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners in Palo Alto, CA, is seeking an experienced backend/platform engineer to build and scale customer-facing agent platforms and research workflows. You will own cloud infrastructure, tooling, and data/model workflows, collaborating with product and research teams.

The role requires strong Python/Go, Kubernetes, and cloud expertise, with visa sponsorship available and on-site work in Palo Alto.

Qualifications

• 5–12 years of backend or platform engineering experience with senior IC work.
• Experience building a customer-focused platform from ground up, ideally for LLM or agent workloads.
• Strong backend fundamentals in Python or Go, APIs, databases, and storage, and distributed systems.
• Working experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud platform such as AWS or Google Cloud.
• Production experience with LLM or agent serving, orchestration, memory, tool use, or evaluations.
• Experience spanning large technology organizations and startups or research environments, with ownership of complete systems.
• Familiarity with data pipelines, job scheduling, or ML experimentation workflows, and a strong technical or STEM background.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure, storage, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security for research and product environments.
• Build internal developer tools, automation, and shared libraries that improve engineering productivity.
• Develop reliable systems for data management, model experimentation, evaluation, and deployment across research and production.
• Define and improve build, test, and release workflows from prototype through production.
• Monitor service and pipeline performance, diagnose bottlenecks, and improve reproducibility.
• Contribute to platform architecture and infrastructure strategy as systems scale.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Databases & storage

Kubernetes knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Google Cloud

LLM/agent serving

Job description

True Talent Solutions Partners in Palo Alto, CA, is seeking an experienced backend/platform engineer to build and scale customer-facing agent platforms and research workflows. You will own cloud infrastructure, tooling, and data/model workflows, collaborating with product and research teams.

The role requires strong Python/Go, Kubernetes, and cloud expertise, with visa sponsorship available and on-site work in Palo Alto.