AI Platform Engineer

About the role

Tessera Labs is redefining how enterprises adopt and operationalize Artificial Intelligence. Backed by Foundation Capital and led by a world-class founding team, we build multi-agent AI systems that automate complex business workflows across platforms like SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, DataBricks, and more. Our mission is simple but ambitious: bring real AI automation to the enterprise — with speed, precision, and measurable impact. We move fast, operate with extreme ownership, and build at the frontier of applied AI.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade AI agent infrastructure
• Be part of a team that supports Tessera’s AI infrastructure across every cloud provider
• Build and be the primary owner of the Azure or Oracle Cloud variant of Tessera’s cloud infrastructure, also support GCP and AWS
• Enable portable infrastructure across customer environments
• Improve observability, security, and system reliability
• Deploy and operate applications using Kubernetes and Terraform
• Partner closely with product and platform engineers to unblock delivery
• Build and maintain a reusable automation framework for day-to-day DevOps and developer workflows, covering environment provisioning, secret rotation, dependency updates, compliance checks, and release management
• Automate operational runbooks and recurring processes, identify manual work across the engineering org and systematically eliminate it through scripts, pipeline stages, and self-service tooling
• Champion an automation-first mindset across the team, if something is done twice, it should be automated; if it's automated, it should be observable and maintained like production code

Must-Have Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Strong hands-on experience in Azure, Oracle Cloud, GCP or AWS
• Proven track record designing and owning CI/CD systems, pipeline architecture, GitOps-driven deployments, release automation, and pipeline-as-code practices
• Experience building automation frameworks for DevOps and developer workflows, including scripting (Bash, Python, or similar), workflow orchestration, and self-service tooling that reduces manual intervention across engineering processes
• Strong networking fundamentals
• Proven experience deploying and operating real production systems

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with FluxCD or other GitOps controllers (ArgoCD, etc.)
• Understanding of cloud security and DevSecOps, integrating security gates, SBOM generation, and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines
• Deep networking expertise
• A passion (and curiosity) about clean, unified infrastructure and best practices
• Experience with software development and SDLC and a builder mindset

Who You Are

• Somebody with a passion for learning new things and robust, reliable infrastructure
• Comfortable owning and defending complex AI agent infrastructure decisions
• Experienced in startups and/or big tech environments
• Highly self-motivated with a strong ownership mindset
• Someone who enjoys building foundational systems that other engineers rely on

Why Join Tessera Labs

• Work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure with real enterprise impact
• Own foundational systems at an early-stage, high-growth company
• Collaborate with a sharp, execution-focused founding team
• Shape how AI is deployed across the largest enterprise platforms in the world

Compensation Range

$200K - $250K