Senior Platform Engineer - AI/ML Backend & Scale

Digitailor; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitailor is seeking an experienced backend/platform engineer to join the platform team in Palo Alto. You will design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and release workflows for customer-facing agent products and research workflows.

You will bring 5–12 years of backend or platform experience, strong Python/Go skills, Kubernetes, and cloud experience (AWS/Google Cloud). Visa sponsorship is available. On-site in Palo Alto, CA.

Qualifications

• 5–12 years in backend or platform engineering, including senior or staff IC roles.
• Experience building a customer-facing product platform for LLM/agent workloads.
• Strong backend fundamentals: Python or Go, APIs, databases, storage, distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS or Google Cloud.

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 to 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

Python/Go backend

APIs

Databases/Storage

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Google Cloud)

LLM/Agent serving

Data pipelines/ML workflows

Senior IC/leadership

Job description

Digitailor is seeking an experienced backend/platform engineer to join the platform team in Palo Alto. You will design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and release workflows for customer-facing agent products and research workflows.

You will bring 5–12 years of backend or platform experience, strong Python/Go skills, Kubernetes, and cloud experience (AWS/Google Cloud). Visa sponsorship is available. On-site in Palo Alto, CA.