Staff AI Platform Engineer - Infra, Gateways & Scale

SentinelOne; United States; On-site; USD 156,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with match

Life and disability insurance

Home office allowance

Mobile phone reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Wellness coach

Job summary

SentinelOne seeks a Staff AI Platform Engineer in Infrastructure Services to own the AI Gateway infrastructure, including Kong AI Gateway, authentication, rate-limiting, and observability. You will drive reliability and architectural direction across the platform stack.

Collaborating with security, DevEx, and product engineering, you will shape CI/CD, GitOps, and artifact pipelines, while enabling self-hosted model serving and AI tooling adoption at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering with end-to-end ownership.
• Hands-on with API gateway tech (Kong/Envoy/Apigee) and AI/LLM gateway patterns.
• Kubernetes and GitOps experience across dev/gov/prod environments.
• Strong CI/CD and build infra know-how (Jenkins, runners, GitHub Actions).
• Artifact/package mgmt and source control (Artifactory, Xray, GitHub Enterprise).
• Infra-as-code (Terraform) and cloud fluency (AWS/EKS).
• Experience deploying self-hosted LLM inference stacks and GPU scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Architect, harden, and scale Kong AI Gateway deployment with auth, tiering, and caching.
• Drive reliability, incident response, and observability across gateway issues.
• Design platform solutions beyond the gateway with CI/CD and GitOps tooling.
• Evaluate AI developer tooling and build buy/build recommendations.
• Mentor engineers; set architectural standards for AI infrastructure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security, DevEx, and product teams.
• Operate self-hosted model serving infra and manage GPU capacity/costs.
• Support model lifecycle: versioning, evaluation, and safe rollouts.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Okta/OIDC

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

Kong

Envoy

Apigee

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Artifactory

Xray

GitHub Enterprise

Terraform

AWS EKS

vLLM

NVIDIA Triton

Ollama

Job description

SentinelOne seeks a Staff AI Platform Engineer in Infrastructure Services to own the AI Gateway infrastructure, including Kong AI Gateway, authentication, rate-limiting, and observability. You will drive reliability and architectural direction across the platform stack.

Collaborating with security, DevEx, and product engineering, you will shape CI/CD, GitOps, and artifact pipelines, while enabling self-hosted model serving and AI tooling adoption at scale.