Platform Engineer

• Drive adoption of open source standard methodologies across product teams
• Design governance models covering ownership, decision-making, and contributor pathways
• Grow active contribution from external contributors
• Provision and operate community infrastructure including Slack, community meetings, and collaboration spaces
• Develop and run 30/60/90-day post-launch plans for newly open source repositories
• Build isolated, contributor-safe CI for external pull requests
• Create the end-to-end contributor path from starter issue through contribution guide and automated review
• Implement PR quality-signal screening before maintainer review
• Monitor community health, engagement, events, and program metrics
• Turn readiness engagements into reusable playbooks

Growth Engineer, Developer Platform

• Lead a small team that multiplies the broader Forward Deployed Engineering organization’s impact
• Increase the rate at which customer-grounded ideas become durable, generalizable platform bets
• Embed Platform FDE capacity with customer-tagged pods for architecture, product shaping, refactoring, hardening, and reusable abstractions
• Collaborate with B2B Platform and long-term owners on architecture, interfaces, security/governance requirements, and handoff criteria
• Manage a focused portfolio of platform incubation work with hypotheses, success criteria, and measurable adoption outcomes
• Translate deployment signal into reusable capabilities for long-term owners
• Lead through influence across multiple stakeholders and establish clear responsibility boundaries
• Guide platform bets through sequencing, validation, and adoption measurement
• Build and validate working software with design partners, instrument usage and outcomes, and iterate based on real-world constraints
• Maintain standards for design, code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness
• Coach and develop engineers through feedback, expectations, and team mechanisms
• Make tradeoffs under ambiguity, communicate decisions, and drive outcomes through partnership

Platform Engineering Manager – Forward Deployed Engineering

• Improve Active Directory and DNS resilience, including replication topology and health, FSMO roles, DFS-R, NTDS, AD-integrated DNS, and cloud-instance domain controllers
• Support migration from NTLM to Kerberos without an outage during the transition
• Work with SPNs, constrained delegation, encryption types, managed service accounts, group managed service accounts, and reverse DNS
• Support identity integration across Windows and non-Windows environments, including LDAP, desktop and cloud single sign-on, and brokered application identity
• Support and improve golden image and patch pipelines, including automated image builds, CI scheduling, promotion, deprecation, deregistration, and CVE-driven rebuilds
• Improve Windows observability through infrastructure agents, service and event-channel collection, script-derived metrics, health monitoring, replication status, and log forwarding
• Develop and maintain PowerShell automation for Windows platform operations and resiliency
• Support Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Chef, Ansible, Systems Manager, guardrail policies, pipeline validation, and OpenTofu
• Support multi-account rebuilds, guardrail policies, and module compliance
• Strengthen security and data-protection controls, including block-storage encryption, key management, web-tier protection, and instance metadata hardening
• Improve PKI and certificate-services resilience
• Support disaster recovery design, cloud platforms, and file services, including RTO/RPO planning, recovery strategies, failover testing, and divisional cloud accounts
• Support file-services resilience and legacy distributed-file-system decommissioning targeting zero RPO and sub-five-minute RTO
• Define, test, and document Active Directory backup, restore, and forest recovery
• Define the NTLM decommission path and audit remaining NTLM use
• Establish certificate inventory and expiry alerting
• Address or document the future state of the directory privileged-access model
• Exercise directory-specific recovery testing
• Rationalize the Windows image catalogue and multi-tenant configuration
• Confirm whether Group Policy is unused or unmanaged

Senior Windows Platform Engineer

• Architect, design, and implement Java and Spring Boot microservices across the platform
• Define and document target-state architecture, service boundaries, and upgrade paths
• Lead decomposition of legacy PHP/Symfony monolith functionality into independently deployable Java services
• Design and build AWS-native solutions using ECS/Fargate, SQS, SNS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and Parameter Store
• Build and maintain secure REST APIs with validation, error handling, authentication, and authorization
• Drive identity modernization, including OAuth2/OIDC and LDAP-to-Okta migration
• Design and optimize data access layers using JPA/Hibernate, including ORM mappings, schema evolution, indexing, and query tuning
• Establish standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, logging, and alerting
• Partner with QA, DevOps, Product, Architecture, and Regulatory teams
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Lead technical planning and execution of complex multi-sprint initiatives
• Troubleshoot production issues affecting performance, stability, and reliability
• Maintain compliance with SOX and HIPAA requirements

Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

• Architect, design, and implement Java and Spring Boot microservices across the platform
• Define and document target-state architecture, service boundaries, and upgrade paths
• Lead decomposition of legacy PHP/Symfony monolith functionality into independently deployable Java services
• Design and build AWS-native solutions using ECS/Fargate, SQS, SNS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and Parameter Store
• Build and maintain secure REST APIs with validation, error handling, authentication, and authorization
• Drive identity modernization, including OAuth2/OIDC and LDAP-to-Okta migration
• Design and optimize JPA/Hibernate data access layers, schema evolution, indexes, and queries
• Establish standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, logging, and alerting
• Partner with QA, DevOps, Product, Architecture, and Regulatory teams
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Lead technical planning and execution of complex multi-sprint initiatives
• Troubleshoot production issues affecting performance, stability, and reliability
• Maintain compliance with SOX and HIPAA requirements

• Own the workflow engine, including scheduling, batching, idempotency, cancelling, and retrying runs
• Build and harden integrations with dozens of data providers
• Manage rate limits, concurrency, failures, and cost per call
• Improve observability and alerting so failures are visible and inexpensive to fix
• Track cost per run
• Scale Postgres and Redis as volume grows
• Use coding agents heavily and exercise judgment over their output
• Shape how the platform is built as one of the first engineers

Founding Engineer, Platform

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain applications and services supporting engineering process execution
• Own the full application lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and support
• Build integrations and automations across the engineering toolchain
• Eliminate manual handoffs and maintain data consistency between systems
• Model, pipeline, and maintain data for process and quality reporting using Databricks
• Act as product manager for applications and automations
• Elicit and document requirements, manage backlogs and roadmaps, set scope and timing expectations, and prioritize with stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineering teams, process owners, and leadership across Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
• Translate process intent into technical implementation
• Manage AWS and Databricks resources and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain reliability, security, and cost efficiency
• Document solutions and keep tools and automations maintainable

Senior Data and Platform Engineer

• Build foundational platform systems across product infrastructure, PostgreSQL databases, and the GCP environment
• Develop and maintain internal tooling, data platforms, and systems supporting internal AI workflows
• Build shared frameworks, evaluations, loops, harnesses, sandboxes, and interfaces for agentic systems
• Build a mental model of product and company infrastructure, including PostgreSQL, GCP, data systems, developer tooling, and security foundations
• Develop relationships with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders to identify platform friction
• Ship infrastructure improvements to production
• Identify and prioritize platform opportunities based on stakeholder feedback
• Own platform projects from discovery through production rollout
• Plan and execute production database or GCP changes with safe migration, validation, observability, and rollback practices
• Establish feedback loops with internal platform customers
• Expand shared agent infrastructure for internal workflows and customer-facing agentic features
• Drive the platform roadmap based on customer needs and infrastructure standards
• Deliver improvements to database, cloud, data, or developer infrastructure
• Raise infrastructure-change standards through clear design, migration planning, and production ownership

Software Engineer – Platform

• Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support applications and automation systems
• Own and continuously improve platform engineering tools and services, including documentation and cross-team communication
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines
• Manage CI/CD systems to enable efficient and reliable delivery of software
• Implement and operate observability solutions including logging, monitoring, and alerting to ensure uptime and system performance
• Enforce security best practices, including vulnerability management and incident response readiness
• Participate in the on-call rotation for services owned by the Platform Engineering team
• Work with R&D teams to design and build software-defined automation solutions for modern factories
• Shape and maintain the core platform powering Bright Machines' automation solutions

Staff Platform Engineer

• Design and implement low-latency, high-reliability APIs for leaderboards, models, and arenas
• Handle SSE and streaming responses across heterogeneous model providers
• Implement partial failure recovery, mid-stream fallback, and consistent response normalization
• Build enterprise-grade infrastructure including rate limiting, authentication, usage metering, cost attribution, audit logging, and SOC 2 compliance capabilities
• Instrument infrastructure with distributed tracing, latency breakdowns, token-level usage tracking, and real-time dashboards
• Integrate with the core evaluation platform, Arena data, and customer-specific benchmarks
• Collaborate with the research team to turn novel ideas into full-featured products
• Contribute to the backend of the Leaderboards and Evals platforms
• Help unify public and private data architectures
• Work closely with researchers, engineers, and product leadership as an early infrastructure-team member
• Operate as a hands-on individual contributor building foundational infrastructure for online AI evaluation systems

Platform Engineer jobs in California

Growth Engineer, Developer Platform

Platform Engineering Manager – Forward Deployed Engineering

Senior Windows Platform Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

Founding Engineer, Platform

Senior Data and Platform Engineer

Software Engineer – Platform

Staff Platform Engineer

Software Engineer, Platform