Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Designing and operating the infrastructure for an AI-agent-operated CDP and messaging platform handling 500K+ events/sec.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
~52 Rust/Python services on EKS, AI agent guardrails, and self-verifying runbooks
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, AI Operations, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitOps, Postgres, Streaming systems, Incident response, AI agent guardrail design
Preferred skills
Rust, Python, Karpenter, HPA tuning, IAM/IRSA, MCP protocol
Technologies
Rust, Python, EKS, AWS, Terraform, Kustomize, Postgres, Karpenter
Responsibilities
Own infra topology and scaling boundaries, build validation gates and drift detectors, diagnose novel distributed-system failures, tune load testing and SLOs, manage IAM/IRSA and secret rotation, sync agent skills and runbooks, lead incidents and create regression tests
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic design ownership