Staff / Principal Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team as a Staff or Principal Platform Engineer, taking end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure that supports consumer-facing AI products. You will build reliable, secure, high-performance systems and help engineering teams develop and deploy services effectively.

What You'll Do

• Design, deploy, and maintain reliable, secure cloud infrastructure for AI services.

• Own CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure deployments using Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and related tools.

• Work with engineers across the organization to deploy and evolve services on major cloud providers.

• Build AI-powered tools and workflows that improve software development and deployment.

• Provide tools and processes for monitoring service reliability, availability, and performance.

• Lead root cause analysis and automate solutions that help prevent recurring issues.

• Manage and scale production Kubernetes clusters, including application deployments with Helm charts and Kustomize manifests.

What We're Looking For

• At least 8 years of software or platform engineering experience, with hands-on ownership of production Kubernetes clusters operated as an internal platform.

• At least 3 years of infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or Terragrunt.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, and ArgoCD or equivalent GitOps tools.

• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider, such as GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, or AWS.

• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, and a technical or STEM degree.

• Experience operating AI/ML infrastructure or supporting real-time, low-latency workloads is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $280,000 to $350,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid role based in Mountain View, California, United States.