Staff Platform Engineer – Remote, High Ownership + Equity

Recruiting from Scratch LLC; United States; Remote; USD 260,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within United States

Significant equity options package

20 days PTO annually

401(k) with employer contribution

Continuing education credits

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch LLC is seeking a senior platform/DevOps engineer to build and scale production AI infrastructure. You will own CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code while partnering with data, ML, and DevOps teams.

This remote US role offers a base salary of $260,000–$325,000 with significant equity, strong ownership culture, and opportunities to influence architecture and security. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of Python/Terraform experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and production systems.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform.
• Experience with Docker or comparable container technologies.
• Experience with cloud and serverless technologies, including AWS Lambda and EC2.
• Experience designing or operating asynchronous workflows.
• Comfortable working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
• Strong coding ability; Python is the primary language.
• Able to independently own projects and drive them to completion with limited oversight.
• Proactive communicator who surfaces blockers and keeps stakeholders informed.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the cloud infrastructure and internal tooling supporting a production AI platform.
• Own and maintain CI/CD pipelines and improve the reliability and speed of engineering deployments.
• Automate operational workflows and reduce manual infrastructure work.
• Improve infrastructure performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Monitor cloud usage and identify opportunities to improve infrastructure efficiency and cost.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and modern Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Support containerized and serverless workloads across cloud environments.
• Standardize development environments and deployment patterns across engineering teams.
• Maintain and improve observability, monitoring, and incident response systems.
• Partner with full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers on scalable platform architecture.
• Help maintain security and compliance requirements expected by enterprise insurance customers.
• Debug complex production and infrastructure issues across distributed systems.
• Take significant ownership over technical projects from design through production.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Docker

Python

System design

Security

Observability

PostgreSQL

Ownership

AWS Lambda/EC2

Tools

Terraform

Docker

PostgreSQL

AWS Lambda

EC2

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch LLC is seeking a senior platform/DevOps engineer to build and scale production AI infrastructure. You will own CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code while partnering with data, ML, and DevOps teams.

This remote US role offers a base salary of $260,000–$325,000 with significant equity, strong ownership culture, and opportunities to influence architecture and security. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of Python/Terraform experience.