Staff Platform Engineer – Infrastructure
- Compensation
- $260K–$325K
- Location
- Remote, New York, New York
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Strong Python experience in production environments.
- Experience building or operating distributed systems.
- Experience with LLMs, generative AI, or infrastructure supporting AI/ML applications.
- Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for both performance and cost.
- Experience designing observability and production incident-response practices.
- Background supporting security- or compliance-sensitive enterprise software.
- Experience working across application, data, ML, and infrastructure engineering teams.
- Evidence of high ownership and the ability to solve ambiguous infrastructure problems independently.
Full description
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. We partner closely with our clients to deeply understand their needs, then connect them with top-tier candidates who are not only highly skilled but also the right fit for the company’s culture and vision. Our mission is simple: place the best people in the right roles to drive long-term success for both clients and candidates.
Staff Platform Engineer – Infrastructure
Company Stage of Funding: Venture-Backed Growth-Stage Company
Office Type: Remote, Hybrid New York
Salary: $260,000 –$325,000 + Significant Equity
Company Description
We’re representing a venture-backed AI company building professional-grade AI systems for the insurance industry. The company develops technology that helps insurers automate and improve complex workflows across underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution.
Its products are already deployed with leading insurers and are designed for environments where reliability, correctness, security, and trust are critical. Backed by investors including IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, the team includes talent from companies such as Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, Uber, Mastercard, and McKinsey.
The company operates as a globally distributed organization with a strong culture of ownership, experimentation, transparency, and high performance.
What You Will Do
- Build and improve the cloud infrastructure and internal tooling supporting a production AI platform.
- Own and maintain CI/CD pipelines and improve the reliability and speed of engineering deployments.
- Automate operational workflows and reduce manual infrastructure work.
- Improve infrastructure performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Monitor cloud usage and identify opportunities to improve infrastructure efficiency and cost.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and modern Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Support containerized and serverless workloads across cloud environments.
- Standardize development environments and deployment patterns across engineering teams.
- Maintain and improve observability, monitoring, and incident response systems.
- Partner with full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers on scalable platform architecture.
- Help maintain security and compliance requirements expected by enterprise insurance customers.