Together AI
Staff Platform Engineer, Service Infrastructure
San Francisco · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$240k-$280kDetected 11 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsGitAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringDNSLoad BalancingZero TrustResearchCommunicationMentoringArgo CD
About the role
- These services sit on the critical path for customers and internal systems.
- This is a hands-on Staff role focused on evolving
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction for service infrastructure within Product Foundations, including Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CDNs, ALBs, DNS, IAM, service networking, and related operational patterns.
- Partner deeply with API Platform and UI Platform on networking, DNS, CDN, load balancing, delivery, and gateway patterns for critical customer-facing interfaces.
- Help drive cross-company infrastructure initiatives that Product Foundations depend on or help maintain, including Terraform CI/CD, Kubernetes networking, zero-trust service communication, policy-as-code, and cross-DC/provider networking.
- Build and evolve reusable service infrastructure primitives, including Helm charts, Terraform modules, GitHub Actions/GitOps workflows, service scaffolding, runbooks, and documentation.
- Establish durable technical standards through design docs, architecture reviews, mentorship, and hands-on implementation that help Together scale services across teams, regions, and cloud environments.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, service infrastructure, SRE, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or related roles.
- Deep production experience with Kubernetes, including EKS, Helm, ArgoCD/Argo Rollouts, ingress, autoscaling, secrets, service identity, networking, and progressive delivery.
- Experience operating networking and edge infrastructure such as CDNs, ALBs/NLBs, DNS, TLS, ingress/egress controls, and traffic management.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages used for infrastructure tooling and automation, such as Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar.
- Direct experience with observability systems, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and incident response.
Nice to have
- Experience embedding infrastructure best practices into product engineering teams at scale.
- Experience with service mesh or zero-trust infrastructure such as mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Cilium, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, or similar.
- Experience with OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Sentinel, or other policy-as-code systems.
- Experience with supply-chain security, image signing, SBOMs, vulnerability management, or compliance automation.
- About Together AI
- Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company.
- We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama.
- Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
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.
Company info
- understanding service team needs, turning repeated infrastructure problems into reusable patterns, and coordinating across platform owners so Product Foundations services are reliable, repeatable, and built on the right company-wide foundations.
- Together AI is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Product Foundations engineering organization and drive its service infrastructure strategy.
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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- t 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
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