Senior Platform Engineer — AI/ML Infra & Cloud (Remote)

Robots & Pencils; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 126,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to define and lead platform engineering strategy across multi-environment cloud systems. You will own infrastructure architecture end-to-end, drive DevSecOps and compliance practices, and mentor engineers on complex migrations and modernization initiatives.

You will oversee platform reliability, performance, and security at scale while collaborating with leadership to align infrastructure direction with business goals.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional DevOps or platform engineering experience.
• Expert scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Java, Bash).
• Deep cloud expertise across at least one major platform.
• Expert Kubernetes and container orchestration skills.
• Expert IaC skills across multiple tools.
• Strong CI/CD architecture experience at scale.
• Strong DevSecOps experience including secrets management, compliance, and auditing.
• Experience with networking, IAM, security architecture, and zero-trust principles in cloud environments.
• Experience with service mesh, distributed systems, and microservices architecture.
• Strong experience with AI/ML platform infrastructure including model serving, GPU orchestration, and CI/CD for AI/ML systems.
• Demonstrated leadership and technical mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Define DevOps strategy and lead infrastructure architecture across multi-environment cloud systems.
• Architect and own scalable Kubernetes platforms and containerized infrastructure at scale.
• Own infrastructure as code strategy and standards across environments.
• Lead DevSecOps implementation including secrets management, compliance, auditing, IAM, and zero-trust networking.
• Drive platform reliability, performance SLAs, and cost optimization across production systems.
• Lead complex cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives.
• Own observability strategy and production reliability practices.
• Lead AI/ML platform infra including model serving, GPU orchestration, LLM gateway and observability, CI/CD for AI/ML.
• Bring an AI-forward mindset and use Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools to ship higher-quality work.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Docker

IaC

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Security architecture

Cloud platforms

AI/ML infra

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GCP

Azure

Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to define and lead platform engineering strategy across multi-environment cloud systems. You will own infrastructure architecture end-to-end, drive DevSecOps and compliance practices, and mentor engineers on complex migrations and modernization initiatives.

You will oversee platform reliability, performance, and security at scale while collaborating with leadership to align infrastructure direction with business goals.