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Platform Engineer | AI Infrastructure Startup | Brooklyn | Post Seed ($8 million)
Python | Kubernetes | AI | Platform Engineering | Observability
Our client, a cutting-edge AI infrastructure startup based in Brooklyn are scaling, rapidly following significant funding and explosive product growth, and looking for a Platform Engineer
Overview of role:
You'll be joining a highly technical team of just 4 engineers, working directly with the CTO/Founder to build and scale their AI identity and memory platform. You'll own reliability, scalability, cloud infrastructure, observability, and platform performance while solving real-world scaling challenges as the platform grows. This isn't maintaining someone else's cloud setup, it's architecting something new at the intersection of distributed systems and LLMs
Why could you be interested:
- Opportunity to tackle the challenge of persistent memory and identity for AI agents
- Massive ownership and impact within a small engineering team where every technical decision directly shapes the product & company trajectory
Salary: Up to $250,000 Equity
Benefits: Full Medical | Unlimited PTO | Equinox Membership | $5,000 Lifestyle Stipend | $5,000 Relocation Support
Experience
- 4 years in Platform, Infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps Engineering
- Scaled production cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure)
- Strong K8s, Docker, containerisation
- Python backend engineering
- Observability / monitoring
- Comfortable working in high-growth startup environments
Nice to have:
- GenAI or ML infra experience
- Node.js / JavaScript backend development
If interested, please get in touch
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our client are an equal opportunities employer.
Xpertise is acting as an employment agency & business.
At Xpertise, we keep things human, your application will always be reviewed by a real person. We do not rely on AI or automated screening tools. Every candidate receives fair, considered attention from our team.
Salary : $200,000 - $250,000