Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Define DevOps strategy and lead infrastructure architecture for multi-environment, multi-region cloud systems, including AI/ML platform infrastructure.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer
Builds
Kubernetes platforms, containerized infrastructure, AI/ML deployment systems, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateways, and vector stores.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, AI/ML Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, CI/CD architecture, cloud security, networking, IAM, zero-trust principles, distributed systems, microservices, Python, Go, Java, Bash, AI/ML model serving, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateways, vector stores, HPC cluster infrastructure, Slurm
Preferred skills
Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA, Azure DevOps Engineer), FinOps, HPC job schedulers
Technologies
Kubernetes, AWS, CoreWeave, GCP, OCI, Slurm, Claude, Cursor
Responsibilities
Architect and scale Kubernetes platforms, own infrastructure as code strategy, lead DevSecOps practices, drive platform reliability and cost optimization, lead complex cloud migrations, design AI/ML platform infrastructure, mentor engineers, evaluate emerging tools.
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership & mentorship