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Platform Engineer

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  • You’ll own the infrastructure that runs our deploy anywhere platform — from Kubernetes clusters serving ML inference at scale to the CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and observability stack that keep it all reliable
  • This is a hands-on role: you’ll write Helm charts and Terraform one day, debug a Kafka consumer lag issue the next, and ship a backend service feature the day after
  • You’ll deploy across AWS, GCP, and on-premises (including air-gapped environments), and you’ll participate in an on-call rotation supporting enterprise customers
  • Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) for our AWS EKS and GCP GKE clusters, plus on-premises deployments (including Tanzu and air-gapped environments)
  • Own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bazel, ArgoCD) and drive GitOps adoption
  • Deploy, scale, and optimize ML/NLP inference workloads (vLLM, PyTorch, GPU scheduling with various Kubernetes scalers)
  • Build and improve observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog,, and OpenTelemetry
  • Collaborate with Field Engineering to support PoCs and platform deployments in customer cloud VPCs and on-prem environments
  • Contribute to backend services (Java 21, Python, gRPC) and platform features
  • Improve system reliability, scalability, and developer experience across the engineering org

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical insurance
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Free gym access at HQ
  • Annual global summit
  • Free snacks and beverages
  • Bereavement leave
  • Monthly stipend for phone/internet
  • Maternity/Paternity leave
  • Minimal meeting Fridays
  • Flexible working hours
  • Unlimited vacation time policy
  • Home office stipend for remote employees
  • Solid fundamentals in Linux, networking, and distributed systems
  • Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, Helm, or Pulumi
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure also valued)
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Bazel, ArgoCD, or similar)
  • Proficiency in one or more of: Go, Python, Java. Comfortable reading and contributing to backend codebases
  • Strong Kubernetes experience (deployment, debugging, scaling — not just kubectl apply)
  • 2+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or backend infrastructure roles
  • Experience deploying or operating ML inference workloads (model serving, GPU scheduling, vLLM, TensorFlow Serving, or similar)
  • Familiarity with streaming/messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar) and data stores (MariaDB/PostgreSQL, Aerospike, ClickHouse, OpenSearch)
  • Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)
  • Exposure to air-gapped or on-premises Kubernetes deployments
  • Background in observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
  • Experience providing technical support or working directly with enterprise customers on infrastructure issues
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows and managing AI coding agents

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