Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Setting technical direction for a high-performance platform enabling AI/ML trading and renewable energy asset optimization, focusing on DevOps, SRE, and developer experience.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (hands-on IC)
Builds
Scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS ECS/EKS, Modal) and CI/CD pipelines for trading and AI workloads
Domain
Renewable energy trading, AI/ML systems, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS ECS/EKS, Modal, Terraform, Linux, CI/CD design, SRE practices, observability, system design, technical leadership
Preferred skills
Experience in scale-up/growth-stage orgs, backend engineering background
Technologies
AWS, ECS, EKS, Modal, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Grafana Cloud, OTel
Responsibilities
Set technical direction for platform architecture and code quality; Drive DevOps practice and scale CI/CD; Own and evolve ECS/EKS and Modal compute substrates; Partner to establish SRE practices (on-call, SLOs); Support observability work; Mentor platform engineers
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership