Skip to content
AfterQueryAfterQuery

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform

Designs and builds scalable core infrastructure for data generation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and AI evaluation pipelines. Requires strong experience in distributed systems, cloud platforms like GCP/AWS, and high-throughput data processing.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core infrastructure systems.
  • Architect and develop the shared infrastructure powering our data generation platforms, human-in-the-loop systems, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Build systems capable of processing large-scale datasets and high-throughput workloads with strong reliability guarantees.
  • Create reusable infrastructure and APIs that enable product engineers and researchers to build quickly and reliably on top of core systems.
  • Design systems with strong observability, monitoring, and fault tolerance to support production workloads at scale.
  • Help define long-term system architecture across data pipelines, compute infrastructure, task orchestration, and storage systems.
  • Work closely with engineers and researchers to support new AI experimentation workflows and platform capabilities.
  • Define standards for system design, deployment, reliability, and infrastructure operations.

Required Qualifications

  • Strong experience building production distributed systems or platform infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript (Node.js / Next.js) or similar backend technologies.
  • Experience designing and operating systems in cloud environments (GCP or AWS).
  • Experience with message queues and event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, etc.).
  • Experience working with high-throughput data pipelines and asynchronous processing systems.
  • Strong understanding of system scalability, performance, and reliability.
  • Experience owning systems running in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure.
  • Experience supporting large-scale data processing pipelines.
  • Experience with AI infrastructure, LLM evaluation systems, or ML pipelines.
  • Experience working at high-growth startups or scaling early infrastructure.
  • Experience designing human-in-the-loop or workflow orchestration systems.

Skills

Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Next.js, GCP, AWS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Distributed Systems

Shield AI

Shield AI

San Diego, CA
Senior Platform Engineer
$141k+/yrHybrid7+ YOEDevOps / SRE

Designs and operates shared cloud and private-cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes capabilities, and developer self-service tools. Requires 7+ years in platform, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, with strong Terraform, Ansible, Linux, Kubernetes, and public-cloud experience.

Shield AI

Shield AI

San Mateo, CA
Senior Network Engineer
$140k+/yrOn-site6+ YOEDevOps / SRE

Designs, deploys, and operates secure, resilient enterprise and cloud networks across data centers, on-premises environments, and AWS and Azure. Requires 6+ years of production network experience plus expertise in routing, switching, firewalls, automation, and hybrid connectivity.

Astra

Astra

United States

Senior Platform Engineer
$190k+/yrRemote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

Build and operate core platform infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and cloud reliability systems for a regulated payments platform. Requires 5+ years of infrastructure or backend experience, strong infrastructure-as-code skills, and production cloud expertise.

Coinbase

Coinbase

United States

Senior Software Engineer, Core Infra Systems
$186k+/yrRemote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

Senior software engineer building standardized, self-service cloud infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, and networking systems. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, production cloud infrastructure expertise, and proficiency in Go or Python.

Shield AI

Shield AI

Seattle, WA
Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer
$110k+/yrOn-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

Designs and supports physical IT infrastructure across offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers, including racks, cabling, power, cooling, documentation, and capacity planning. Requires 5+ years of physical infrastructure engineering experience and strong cross-functional project execution.