Senior Platform Engineer

24-MAG
New York, NY
Job Description
Role Overview

We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for experienced Senior Platform Engineers with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, production infrastructure, and resilience engineering to contribute to an advanced AI training and cloud-infrastructure evaluation project.

What You Will Do

Selected professionals will design realistic infrastructure tasks and reinforcement-learning environments that test an AI system's ability to deploy, secure, scale, troubleshoot, and recover production-grade systems.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires substantial hands-on production ownership and strong systems judgement. No prior experience in AI is required.

Requirements

  • Senior-level experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE
  • Demonstrated ownership of production infrastructure or a production platform
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, and durable storage
  • Practical IAM, networking, and service-security experience
  • Strong observability, SLO, deployment, rollback, and disaster-recovery experience
  • Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools
  • Strong debugging skills in containerised environments

Benefits

  • Competitive hourly rate ($60–$130/hour)
  • Output-based compensation structure with payment made per task that meets project specifications
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