Staff Platform Engineer: Build Scalable AI Infra

Bright Machines, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Machines, Inc. is hiring a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You’ll drive CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security for critical automation platforms used in modern manufacturing solutions. The role requires hands‑on scripting (Python, Shell), strong Linux administration, and experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field (implied by role).
• At least 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• Strong experience with physical infrastructure, including networking equipment and servers.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools and GitOps workflows.
• Hands‑on coding experience in Python and Shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of Linux internals and system administration.
• Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (self-hosted and managed), including Helm.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support applications and automation systems.
• Own and continuously improve platform engineering tools and services, including documentation and cross-team communication.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines.
• Manage CI/CD systems to enable efficient and reliable delivery of software.
• Implement and operate observability solutions (logging, monitoring, alerting) to ensure uptime and system performance.
• Enforce security best practices, including vulnerability management and incident response readiness.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for services owned by the Platform Engineering team.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

Observability

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Bright Machines, Inc. is hiring a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You’ll drive CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security for critical automation platforms used in modern manufacturing solutions. The role requires hands‑on scripting (Python, Shell), strong Linux administration, and experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows.