Platform Engineer — United States

RdAb is partnering with an ambitious, well-funded AI startup taking on one of the toughest challenges in enterprise technology: bringing powerful AI engineering capabilities into complex, real-world industrial environments.

With approximately $73 million in funding, they're looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Infrastructure who loves building systems, solving hard infrastructure problems, and owning the engineering behind products that actually ship.

Why You Will Be Excited About This Role

• This isn't a role where you'll simply keep Kubernetes clusters running. You'll build the software and platforms that make everything work.

• Solve difficult challenges involving distributed systems, cloud orchestration, enterprise deployments, and infrastructure automation.

• Build infrastructure that enables sophisticated AI systems to operate securely inside enterprise environments.

• Get hands-on with architecture, development, and technical decisions that shape the platform's future.

• See the direct impact of your engineering work on products serving major industrial enterprises.

Why You Will Like Working Here

• A startup environment where engineers are trusted to own problems from architecture through production.

• Approximately $73 million in funding supporting an ambitious technical vision.

• Complex, meaningful engineering challenges rather than endless maintenance work.

• Small-team dynamics, technical autonomy, and the opportunity to shape foundational infrastructure.

• A remote-first working arrangement with regular opportunities for in-person collaboration.

What You Will Be Working On

• Build and scale cloud-native infrastructure powered by Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS/GCP/Azure.

• Write production software for deployment orchestration, distributed infrastructure services, and platform automation.

• Develop systems that manage infrastructure provisioning, deployment lifecycles, and cloud environments.

• Engineer deployment capabilities that work across enterprise infrastructure and customer-managed environments.

• Tackle difficult reliability, networking, security, scalability, and systems integration challenges.

• Help define how the platform evolves as the company grows.

What Type of Person Will Be Successful

• You're a software engineer who builds infrastructure, not someone who only operates it.

• You've designed, developed, and shipped meaningful platform engineering or distributed systems software.

• You understand Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture beyond basic deployment and configuration.

• You're comfortable developing infrastructure automation, orchestration software, and scalable backend systems.

• You enjoy working with autonomy, navigating ambiguity, and figuring things out without a large support structure.

• You have the engineering depth to solve complex technical problems and the adaptability to thrive in a startup.

• Location & Logistics: Remote anywhere in the United States or Canada, with approximately one week in the San Francisco Bay Area every six weeks. No visa sponsorship.