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Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Platform Foundations

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Platform Foundations team building cloud/multi-cloud infrastructure, networking primitives, security guardrails, and developer tooling to enable safe, scalable, and cost-predictable engineering for open AI models.

Role type

Senior IC Engineering Lead (Platform Foundations)

Builds

Multi-cloud infrastructure, networking primitives, security guardrails, developer tooling, and golden paths for engineering teams.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Team building and mentorship, production-grade system ownership, strong coding ability, cloud platform expertise, network engineering, security architecture, developer tooling, vendor management and deal negotiation, multi-cloud strategy, technical decision-making.

Preferred skills

Experience scaling teams to ~10, deep expertise in at least one core domain with working knowledge across others.

Technologies

Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Bazel, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

Responsibilities

Build and mentor infrastructure/platform engineers, guide technical/architectural decisions for scalability and security, make targeted IC contributions to the stack, manage day-to-day execution and prioritization, partner with research and engineering teams, manage cloud vendor relationships and deals.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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