Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Posted 10 Days Ago
Be an Early Applicant
San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
240K-280K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology
The Role
Lead platform infrastructure strategy and build reusable service infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, networking, and operational systems. Develop Helm charts, Terraform modules, CI/CD, GitOps workflows, zero-trust policies, and self-service platform capabilities. Partner with service, SRE, security, networking, and infrastructure teams to modernize services and drive adoption of shared patterns. Lead cross-company infrastructure initiatives and establish an initial platform infrastructure team.
Summary Generated by Built In

About the Role

Together AI is hiring a Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer to drive the service and platform infrastructure strategy across our engineering organization. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with the opportunity to establish a new team and shape its direction, defining the golden path for how services are built and operated at Together.

This role will support mission-critical Product and Platform teams by providing a stable, scalable service infrastructure foundation for building and operating customer-facing and internal services. The focus is on making that foundation reliable, repeatable, and easy for teams to adopt.

You'll own and evolve crucial shared infrastructure, roll out new infrastructure patterns and platform capabilities to service teams, and coordinate with other infrastructure teams to ensure services are built on company-wide foundations.

In your first year, you might:

  • Ship a new golden-path service template (scaffolding, Helm chart, CI/CD, and GitOps) and move the first set of services onto it.
  • Implement zero-trust policies on our production clusters.
  • Collaborate with DevProd and SREs on the migration to Kargo.
  • Hire and grow the initial Platform Infrastructure team.
Responsibilities
  • Set the technical direction for service infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, CDN and edge networking, and related operational patterns.
  • Design and build reusable infrastructure primitives, such as Helm charts and Terraform modules.
  • Build self-service platform capabilities, operational runbooks, and AI-assisted tooling that accelerate service development and operations.
  • Partner closely with service teams to modernize existing services and adopt stronger infrastructure patterns.
  • Work with Infrastructure, Networking, and Security teams to translate company-wide platform standards into practical service-level implementations.
  • Lead cross-company infrastructure initiatives such as Terraform CI/CD, Kubernetes networking, zero-trust service communication, policy-as-code, and cross-DC and cross-provider networking.
Requirements
  • 7+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, service infrastructure, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or a related field.
  • Deep production experience with Kubernetes and AWS, including operating shared infrastructure for deployment, networking, identity, scaling, or service reliability. Examples include EKS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, and ECR.
  • Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure delivery automation.
  • Working knowledge of service and edge networking, including DNS, TLS, CDNs, load balancing, and ingress and egress.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript, or another systems or infrastructure-oriented programming language.
  • Experience building reusable infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams and helping those teams adopt it in production.
  • Proven ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, with strong written technical communication and a track record of driving adoption across teams you don't manage.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with GitHub Actions, GitOps workflows, and service scaffolding.
  • Experience with Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, or Kargo.
  • Experience designing or operating CDNs, WAFs, edge infrastructure, or Layer 4 networking
  • Experience with service meshes, zero-trust networking, policy-as-code, multi-region or hybrid infrastructure, or supply-chain security.
  • Experience operating distributed streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming) as shared platform services for data teams.
  • Experience building or applying AI-assisted tooling to improve service development or operations.
About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $240,000 - $280,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Please see our privacy policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy 


Skills Required

  • 7+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, service infrastructure, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or a related field
  • Deep production experience with Kubernetes and AWS, including shared infrastructure for deployment, networking, identity, scaling, or service reliability
  • Experience with AWS services such as EKS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, and ECR
  • Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure delivery automation
  • Working knowledge of DNS, TLS, CDNs, load balancing, ingress, and egress
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript, or another systems or infrastructure-oriented programming language
  • Experience building reusable infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams and supporting production adoption
  • Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives and drive adoption across teams
  • Strong written technical communication
  • Experience with GitHub Actions, GitOps workflows, and service scaffolding
  • Experience with Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, or Kargo
  • Experience designing or operating CDNs, WAFs, edge infrastructure, or Layer 4 networking
  • Experience with service meshes, zero-trust networking, policy-as-code, multi-region or hybrid infrastructure, or supply-chain security
  • Experience operating Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming as shared platform services
  • Experience building or applying AI-assisted tooling for service development or operations

Together AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Together AI and has not been reviewed or approved by Together AI.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for the company’s stage, with especially strong offers for technical and research roles. A posted AI researcher range reaching into the high-$200Ks alongside equity and benefits reinforces the overall pay positioning.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is commonly included alongside base salary, giving employees ownership exposure tied to company growth. Total compensation is often framed around salary plus equity for specialized roles.
  • Flexible Benefits — Job listings describe a flexible time‑off policy and hybrid or remote work options. Commuter perks and regular team events are also cited as part of the package.

Together AI Insights

Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
HQ: Surry Hills
84 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We contribute leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI. Our decentralized cloud services empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society

Similar Jobs

PayPal Logo PayPal

Staff Software Engineer

Fintech • Payments
In-Office
San Jose, CA, USA
34450 Employees
177K-262K Annually

Anyscale Logo Anyscale

Staff Software Engineer

Artificial Intelligence • Software
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
115 Employees
215K-265K Annually

True Anomaly Logo True Anomaly

Platform Engineer

Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Machine Learning • Software • Defense • Manufacturing
In-Office
2 Locations
300 Employees
150K-230K Annually

Similar Companies Hiring

Onshore Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software • Financial Services
New York, New York
60 Employees
Blee Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Software
New York, New York
30 Employees
Vega Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Insurance • Transportation
US
65 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account