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AI Platform Engineer
Job Summary
Join a high-growth B2B SaaS startup as an AI Platform Engineer to build the core infrastructure powering AI productivity, deployment, monitoring, security, and cost optimization. This high-impact role will boost iteration speed across all teams and define the future of engineering practices. You'll own platforms that enable rapid shipping of scalable, enterprise-grade systems.
Essential Functions
- Build internal platforms and AI loops to accelerate company iteration speed
- Strengthen security, compliance, and operational readiness
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing, deployments, and developer environments
- Evaluate and implement new tooling, storage, and compute systems
- Enable non-technical staff to build and ship improvements safely
- Empower technical teams to deliver scalable systems faster
- Resolve production incidents with immediate fixes and long-term solutions
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in platform engineering with production experience in B2B SaaS environments
- Hands-on with CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerization, cloud deployments, and database migrations
- Startup experience, ideally post-Series A through growth stages
- Strong product sense with history of building and shipping products
- Self-sufficient with focus on customer happiness
- Able to work on-site in San Francisco; hybrid for exceptional candidates
- Degree from a top-tier university
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience as a founder or founding engineer
- Background in martech or data/analytics tooling
- AI-first engineering mindset with dev tooling setup for AI-assisted development
- Experience operating at the edge of AI development
- Learned from decades of enterprise-grade engineering patterns
Technical Skills
- Kubernetes
- Containerization (Docker)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- ETL pipelines
- TypeScript
- Python
- Web stack
- Chrome extensions
- AI tooling and infrastructure
Education & Certifications
Degree from a top-tier university required. Experience in SOC 2 compliant environments preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary range of $200,000 - $300,000 based on experience, plus equity in a high-growth startup.