ABOUT THE ROLE
We are hiring a Platform Engineer to own the runtime our entire product sits on: infrastructure, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, and developer experience. You keep an AI-native, multi-tenant platform reliable, fast, and easy to build on.
WHY THIS ROLE
Own the foundation the whole product and team depend on.
Shape reliability, performance, and cost for a multi-tenant AI platform.
Multiply every engineer’s output through better tooling and infrastructure.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Own Kubernetes (GKE), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and our cloud (GCP) footprint.
Build and operate CI/CD, observability (logs, metrics, traces), and orchestration (Temporal, gateway/Kong).
Improve reliability, performance, and cost across services and the data plane’s infrastructure.
Strengthen multi-tenant provisioning reliability and internal developer experience.
Lead on-call practices and incident response.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
4+ years in platform/infrastructure/DevOps/SRE with production ownership.
Strong Kubernetes, Terraform, and a major cloud (GCP/AWS).
Solid CI/CD and observability experience, plus scripting in Python or Go.
A reliability mindset and calm under incidents.
BONUS IF YOU HAVE
Multi-tenant SaaS or data-platform infrastructure experience.
Temporal, Kong/API gateway, or ClickHouse operations experience.
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