Staff Platform Engineer: Service Infrastructure Lead

Togetherai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Startup equity

Health insurance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Together AI is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to advance its Product Foundations service infrastructure. You’ll own the technical direction for Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud patterns across critical platforms, driving reliability and scalable design.

You will collaborate with API Platform, UI Platform, and security teams to enforce standards, build reusable infrastructure primitives, and mentor engineers while delivering across regions and clouds.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, service infrastructure, SRE, or related roles.
• Deep production experience with Kubernetes (EKS, Helm, ArgoCD/Argo Rollouts, ingress, autoscaling, secrets, networking).
• Strong Terraform experience, including module design, infrastructure CI/CD, policy enforcement.
• Experience operating networking and edge infrastructure (CDNs, ALBs, DNS, TLS, traffic management).
• Proficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar for infrastructure tooling.
• AWS experience, including EKS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, ECR.
• Observability systems: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, incident response.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives across product engineering, infrastructure, networking, and security.
• Strong written communication with design docs, migration plans, and operational guidance.
• Staff-level judgment: define ambiguous problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for service infrastructure within Product Foundations across Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CDNs, and IAM.
• Up-level existing services by improving reliability, operability, deployment safety, and production readiness.
• Partner with API Platform and UI Platform on networking, DNS, CDN, load balancing, and gateway patterns.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Networking, and Security to align platform standards and PF requirements.
• Drive cross-company infrastructure initiatives (Terraform CI/CD, Kubernetes networking, policy-as-code).
• Build and evolve reusable service infrastructure primitives (Helm charts, Terraform modules, GitHub Actions, runbooks).
• Establish durable technical standards through architecture reviews, design docs, and mentorship.

Skills

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

AWS

Go

Python

TypeScript

Observability

Distributed systems

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Tools

Helm

ArgoCD

Argo Rollouts

GitHub Actions

Job description

Together AI is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to advance its Product Foundations service infrastructure. You’ll own the technical direction for Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud patterns across critical platforms, driving reliability and scalable design.

You will collaborate with API Platform, UI Platform, and security teams to enforce standards, build reusable infrastructure primitives, and mentor engineers while delivering across regions and clouds.