Senior Platform Engineer, AI-Powered Systems

Atoms; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

HSA

Job summary

Atoms is hiring for a software platform engineer to build shared infrastructure for Forward Deployed Engineers. You’ll turn deployments into reusable capabilities, create tools and APIs, and own platform reliability in production.

You’ll work on AI-powered applications and integrations, ensuring secure access, observability, and scalable, cost-aware operation. Mountain View and SF offices; onsite five days a week.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, with experience building infrastructure, platforms, or shared backend services.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You can design clear APIs, model data, reason about distributed systems, and make practical tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and complexity.
• Experience turning a specific implementation into a reusable capability.
• A developer-focused mindset. You care about documentation, debugging, onboarding, and making the easiest way to build a reliable one.
• Experience integrating systems through APIs, authentication, and data pipelines, with an understanding of access controls and safe handling of business data.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and production observability. Experience with GCP or Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience building AI-powered applications or supporting infrastructure for them, such as model gateways, tool integrations, workflow execution, or evaluations.
• Effective use of AI coding tools, with the ability to understand, test, debug, and maintain the systems you build.
• Strong ownership and collaboration. You can work alongside FDEs moving quickly, solve immediate delivery problems, and turn what you learn into improvements that benefit the broader team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with FDEs to understand what they’re building, identify recurring needs, and decide which parts should become shared platform capabilities.
• Turn proven solutions into reusable services, integrations, and components that other engineers can adopt with minimal setup.
• Build the foundations for AI-powered applications and workflows, including access to models, business systems, and data, with shared authentication, permissions, and observability.
• Create tools, APIs, SDKs, and deployment templates that let FDEs build, test, and ship independently while meeting security and reliability requirements.
• Help successful deployments grow beyond their initial use case. Strengthen architecture, testing, monitoring, and failure recovery so the business can depend on them.
• Own the platform in production, including reliability, performance, cost, and upgrades. Establish clear ownership and support paths as solutions move from initial deployment to ongoing operation.
• Measure success through developer adoption, shorter delivery times, reduced duplication, and reliable operation. Use feedback from FDEs to keep the platform focused on real needs.

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Documentation

Debugging

Onboarding

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability

AI-powered applications

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

Job description

Atoms is hiring for a software platform engineer to build shared infrastructure for Forward Deployed Engineers. You’ll turn deployments into reusable capabilities, create tools and APIs, and own platform reliability in production.

You’ll work on AI-powered applications and integrations, ensuring secure access, observability, and scalable, cost-aware operation. Mountain View and SF offices; onsite five days a week.