Staff AI Platform Engineer – Agents, Retrieval & Security

Bedrock Ocean Exploration; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Ocean is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead our AI architecture, building the infrastructure for AI agents, including orchestration, data and retrieval pipelines, and the security model required to work with production data.

This role blends software engineering, data engineering, and infrastructure operations, overseeing the Amazon Bedrock implementation from data chunking to IAM access controls, expanding pipelines, and ensuring secure, scalable operations across stages.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software and infrastructure engineering, with senior backend experience and staff-level ownership.
• Production backend experience in Python or TypeScript (Go allowed).
• Hands-on experience standing up Amazon Bedrock in production: agents, knowledge bases, guardrails, and model access.
• Containerized services (ECS/EKS/Lambda) with CI/CD you own.
• Practical RAG and vector search experience with production vector DBs.
• Strong AWS IAM, VPC networking, PrivateLink, and IaC (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation).
• Experience designing developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or platform services.
• Experience building multi-tenant services with isolation guarantees.

Responsibilities

• Architect Agent Orchestration: design Bedrock integration, agent configurations, APIs, model access, throughput, and deployment.
• Manage Retrieval Data Plane: end-to-end retrieval pipeline, ingestion to embedding and storage in OpenSearch Serverless; optimize index design, cost, capacity.
• Extend Data Pipelines: adapt ingestion for internal knowledge, ocean data, and customer platforms; handle geospatial and large-binary data challenges.
• Secure AI Infrastructure: implement Bedrock Guardrails, VPC and PrivateLink boundaries, least-privilege IAM, audit trails.
• Define Agent Governance: enforce approval boundaries for autonomous actions and monitoring.
• Establish LLMOps & Observability: monitoring for tracing, tool calls, and retrieval performance (CloudWatch, Langfuse/Phoenix).
• Build Evaluation Frameworks: infrastructure to run automated evaluations and manage release gates for model accuracy.
• Enable Engineering Productivity: provide abstractions, SDKs, and self-service environments for engineers.

Skills

Python/TypeScript

Go

AWS Bedrock

LLM/AI platforms

CI/CD

OpenSearch Serverless

Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation

Security IAM/VPC

Multi-tenant platforms

Tools

OpenSearch Serverless

Langfuse

Phoenix

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

PrivateLink

Job description

Bedrock Ocean is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead our AI architecture, building the infrastructure for AI agents, including orchestration, data and retrieval pipelines, and the security model required to work with production data.

This role blends software engineering, data engineering, and infrastructure operations, overseeing the Amazon Bedrock implementation from data chunking to IAM access controls, expanding pipelines, and ensuring secure, scalable operations across stages.