Senior Platform Engineer, AI/ML Infra & Reliability

StratITech; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

StratITech in San Francisco is seeking a senior platform engineer who is fundamentally a builder. This is not a production operations role.

You will own platform and infrastructure projects end-to-end, building Kubernetes-based infrastructure and internal tooling for AI, data, and distributed workloads. The strongest candidates have 8+ years in platform or related engineering, strong Linux fundamentals, and experience with Terraform, Python/Go, CI/CD, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, production engineering, SRE, DevOps, systems engineering, or related software engineering.
• Evidence of building or substantially redesigning systems—not simply operating them.
• Strong Linux and systems fundamentals.
• Terraform or comparable Infrastructure-as-Code expertise.
• Python, Go, or comparable programming/automation experience.
• Experience building CI/CD, deployment automation, or developer-platform capabilities.
• Strong troubleshooting and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Ability to make architectural tradeoffs across performance, reliability, security, cost, and complexity.
• Comfort operating independently when requirements are incomplete or changing.

Responsibilities

• Own platform and infrastructure projects from initial problem through production.
• Design and build Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure.
• Develop internal tooling, automation, and platform software.
• Build reusable Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment systems.
• Create CI/CD, GitOps, and developer self-service capabilities.
• Solve technical problems across Linux, networking, storage, cloud, and distributed systems.
• Build reliability and observability into systems from the beginning.
• Partner directly with engineers, scientists, product teams, and technical leadership.
• Own and evolve the systems you build after launch.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes

Python/Go scripting

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Terraform / IaC

Troubleshooting

Architectural tradeoffs

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

GitOps

Job description

StratITech in San Francisco is seeking a senior platform engineer who is fundamentally a builder. This is not a production operations role.

You will own platform and infrastructure projects end-to-end, building Kubernetes-based infrastructure and internal tooling for AI, data, and distributed workloads. The strongest candidates have 8+ years in platform or related engineering, strong Linux fundamentals, and experience with Terraform, Python/Go, CI/CD, and distributed systems.