Friendliai

Friendliai

Software Engineer – Platform Security

San Francisco · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 117 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIComplianceElectrical EngineeringProblem Solving

About the role

  • About the job FriendliAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to assist enterprises in deploying, scaling, and operating generative and agentic AI workloads on FriendliAI infrastructure.
  • Our Friendli Container can be adopted directly to AWS EKS clusters using our EKS add-on product.
  • This is a hands-on, customer-embedded role.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement large-scale deployment architectures for LLM and multimodal inference
  • Deploy and manage containerized workloads across Kubernetes clusters
  • Diagnose production issues, such as performance bottlenecks, and implement temporary fixes as needed
  • Develop scripts, Helm charts, and Terraform modules that simplify repeated deployments

Requirements

  • Familiarity with inference frameworks (Triton, vLLM, TensorRT, DeepSpeed-Inference)
  • Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, OTEL)
  • Understanding of networking security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2)
  • Experience supporting on-prem or hybrid-cloud deployments

Nice to have

  • Contribute field insights to shape our platform reliability, observability, and scaling strategies
  • 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or reliability engineering
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Helm
  • Strong foundation in distributed systems, networking, and performance tuning
  • Experience with GPU-based computing and generative AI model serving workloads
  • Strong technical background in backend systems or AI tooling
  • Experience operating workloads on AWS, GCP, or OCI

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • Health check-up and top-tier hardware support
  • Flexible working hours and a highly collaborative environment

Company info

  • FriendliAI is building the next-generation AI inference platform that accelerates the deployment of large language and multimodal models with unmatched performance and efficiency.
  • Our infrastructure powers high-throughput, low-latency workloads for global organizations and integrates directly with Hugging Face, providing instant access to over 510,000 open-source models.
  • We are on a mission to deliver the world's best platform for AI inference.
  • Collaborate with customers' DevOps teams to integrate FriendliAI's infrastructure into their CI/CD workflows
  • Lead workshops, technical sessions, or webinars to help customers master infrastructure best practices

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