Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Build and scale the next generation agentic orchestration platform (Prefect Cloud) for mission-critical workloads and AI agents.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer
Builds
Prefect Cloud, Prefect OSS, FastMCP OSS, Horizon
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI agent orchestration
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
large-scale distributed systems operations, cloud environment management (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability tooling, Infrastructure as Code (Kubernetes, Terraform), performance engineering, incident response
Preferred skills
AI-powered development tools, mentoring, design feedback
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP, DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Terraform
Responsibilities
Establish high quality of service strategies and error budgets, lead operationally mature work including on-call and incident response, improve user experience through performance engineering and observability, raise technical bar via code review and mentoring, use AI tools effectively in development lifecycle
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence