ReflectionAI

ReflectionAI

Member of Technical Staff - Platform Foundations

New York · Staff+

H1B sponsorship availableDetected 132 days ago
AWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityDNSBGP/OSPFLoad BalancingNetwork EngineeringResearch

About the role

  • Define opinionated golden paths for cloud infrastructure, networking, and access patterns so the safe and scalable path is also the easiest to follow.
  • You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.

Responsibilities

  • Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on.
  • We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI.
  • Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes foundations, CI/CD systems, Bazel, build caching, hermetic builds.
  • Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.
  • Team building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.
  • Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team.

Skills

  • Ship secure defaults and guardrails that make the safe path the easy path.
  • Establish baseline observability and operational hygiene across services and infrastructure.
  • IAM, OIDC, RBAC, KMS, secrets management, policy-as-code (OPA, Gatekeeper), secure defaults, cloud guardrails.
  • Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, logging and metrics systems, FinOps, cloud cost optimization.
  • Thrive in a high-agency, fast-paced environment; bias toward action and impact.
  • Collaborative, clear communicator, comfortable working across research and infrastructure boundaries.
  • Motivated by creating the secure, self-serve foundation that the world's most capable open-weight AI systems are built on.

Compensation

  • Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.
  • Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.

Benefits

  • Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.
  • Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.
  • Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.
  • Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
  • Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.

Company info

  • make intelligence open and accessible to all.
  • Build and operate a company-wide foundations platform that accelerates every team by providing reliable, scalable developer infrastructure, SRE capabilities, and high-throughput data ingestion tooling enabling Reflection to move faster as we scale.
  • Build and operate the foundational platform layer that every engineering team depends on.
  • Work across cloud infrastructure, network primitives, security guardrails, and developer tooling to ensure engineers can ship quickly without sacrificing reliability, security, or cost predictability.
  • Define and maintain golden paths for cloud projects, networking, and access patterns.
  • Build and operate core networking primitives including routing, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity.
  • Own developer infrastructure such as build systems, CI/CD, caching, and test infrastructure to keep engineers shipping fast.
  • Drive cloud cost visibility and reduction through tooling, guardrails, and optimization without slowing teams down.
  • Cloud & Multi-Cloud Architecture: GCP, AWS, multi-cloud design, VPC architecture, private DNS, load balancers, advanced routing (BGP), large-scale Kubernetes clusters, control plane scaling.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.

This listing is sourced directly from ReflectionAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.