Senior Platform Engineer AI/ML Cloud, Remote (ME)

Motion Recruitment; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability Coverage

Long-Term Disability Coverage

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Principal Software Platform Engineer to join a fully remote engineering organization. The role is open to candidates located in Maine, focusing on scalable AI infrastructure, data platforms, and cloud-native services.

You will lead design of highly available platform services, guide architecture, and drive best practices across cloud infrastructure, containers, and observability. Collaboration with software, ML, platform and security teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating enterprise software.
• Expert in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and backend engineering.
• Proven leadership in architectural decisions and large-scale AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design platform services enabling scalable AI workloads.
• Develop cloud-based services for model deployment and execution.
• Improve reliability, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Set engineering standards for architecture and delivery.
• Lead model lifecycle workflows: versioning, deployment, rollback.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Backend engineering

Python

TypeScript

AWS experience

Docker

Observability

Model lifecycle management

Tools

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Principal Software Platform Engineer to join a fully remote engineering organization. The role is open to candidates located in Maine, focusing on scalable AI infrastructure, data platforms, and cloud-native services.

You will lead design of highly available platform services, guide architecture, and drive best practices across cloud infrastructure, containers, and observability. Collaboration with software, ML, platform and security teams is essential.