HUD
Platform Engineer
San Francisco · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
Backend DevelopmentAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningAgentic AIIncident ResponseLogistics
About the role
- We're looking for a Platform Engineer who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD's core infrastructure and backend systems.
- This is not a pure infrastructure role. The right person has strong production infra experience, but also thinks like a backend engineer: they can reason about service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, deployment safety, performance bottlenecks, and how product requirements translate into resilient systems. You'll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services to make HUD faster, more reliable, cheaper to run, and easier for engineers to build on.
- This is not a pure infrastructure role.
Responsibilities
- Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
- Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths
- Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk
- Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling
Requirements
- Experience operating infrastructure for data-heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer-tools, or enterprise platforms
- Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long-running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high-concurrency services
- Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability
Nice to have
- Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost
- Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems
- experience with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management is strongly preferred
- Have built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
- Have strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
- Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows
Compensation
- Competitive compensation based on experience and location
Benefits
- 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA
- Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year's Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
- Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits
Company info
- We have 8 figures in funding and high revenue growth.
- We're scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.
- Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US.
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