Senior Software Engineer

Solomon Page; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Direct deposit

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Solomon Page is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to design and scale production-grade AI services, agentic workflows, and middleware platforms. This hands-on leadership role focuses on building reliable, cloud-native backend systems that enable AI-driven business capabilities.

You will collaborate with product managers and ML engineers to deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions, design secure integration layers, and drive observability and governance across distributed services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years backend or systems engineering experience, incl. 3+ years building AI-enabled platforms.
• Strong expertise in Java or Kotlin; scalable backend systems, testing, and observability.
• Hands-on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes; IaC with Terraform or CDK.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, and workflow orchestration platforms.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI microservices in Kubernetes.
• Build scalable APIs and distributed services with Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge.
• Collaborate with product managers and ML engineers to deliver AI solutions.
• Design middleware, API gateways, and integration layers for AI agents.
• Develop agentic workflows using LangGraph/LangChain; manage orchestration.
• Implement observability, tracing, audit logging, governance, and fallbacks.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and stay current with AI/LLM tech.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Python

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Distributed systems

Leadership

Backend engineering

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CDK

LangGraph

LangChain

OpenAI

Anthropic

Job description

We are seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to build and scale production-grade AI services, agentic workflows, and middleware platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on developing reliable, cloud-native systems that enable AI-driven business capabilities, with a strong emphasis on backend engineering, distributed systems, and GenAI technologies.

Pay range: $90/hr on w2 to $96/hr on w2.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI microservices using Java, Kotlin, Python, or TypeScript in Kubernetes environments.
• Build and maintain scalable APIs, event-driven services, and distributed systems using technologies such as Kafka, SNS/SQS, and EventBridge.
• Collaborate with product managers, platform teams, and machine learning engineers to deliver business-ready AI solutions.
• Design AI middleware, API gateways, and integration layers that securely expose enterprise systems and data to AI agents.
• Develop and manage agentic workflows using platforms such as LangGraph and LangChain, including orchestration, context routing, and tool execution.
• Implement observability, tracing, audit logging, governance controls, human approval mechanisms, and fallback workflows.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, technical planning, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and stay current with emerging AI, LLM, and agent framework technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of backend or systems engineering experience, including 3+ years building AI-enabled or workflow-driven platforms.
• Strong expertise in Java or Kotlin, with deep knowledge of scalable backend systems, testing, and observability.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CDK.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, and workflow orchestration platforms.
• Strong communication skills with proven technical leadership experience in cross-functional environments.

Preferred

• Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar GenAI frameworks.
• Knowledge of media, entertainment, localization, content operations, or post-production workflows.
• Experience with Spring Framework and multi-tenant platform architectures.
• Familiarity with Agile development, DevOps automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Contributions to AI/ML infrastructure tooling or open-source GenAI projects.

If you are a hands-on engineering leader passionate about building scalable AI platforms and next-generation agentic systems, we'd love to hear from you.

Solomon Page offers a comprehensive benefit program for hourly employees. We pride ourselves on offering medical, dental, 401(k), direct deposit and commuter benefits to our employees, including freelancers - which sets us apart in the industries we serve.

About Solomon Page: Founded in 1990, Solomon Page is a specialty niche provider of staffing and executive search solutions across a wide array of functions and industries. The success of Solomon Page reflects an organic growth strategy supported by a highly entrepreneurial culture. Acting as a strategic partner to our clients and candidates, we focus on providing customized solutions and building long-terms relationships based on trust, respect, and the consistent delivery of excellent results. For more information and additional opportunities, visit: solomonpage.com and connect with us on Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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