Staff Platform Engineer - Materia AI

About the role

In this opportunity as a Staff Platform Engineer- Materia AI you will:

• Innovate with Startup Speed and Enterprise Scale: Be part of a team that maintains the innovation velocity of a startup while leveraging the operational maturity of a global enterprise.
• Deliver AI-Driven Systems: Launch backend services into production that power generative AI agents and orchestration systems.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with AI/ML engineers, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build robust services and developer experiences.
• Help to build out AI native products for tax, accounting, and audit professionals.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain "golden path" reference implementations for automated build, test, and deploy workflows that development teams can adopt and customize.

• Design, implement, and manage reference CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk.
• Develop Go command-line tools and services that streamline and empower developer workflows, from local development to production deployment.
• Establish, measure, and continuously improve DORA metrics, for example deployment frequency, change failure rate to optimize the velocity and quality of product delivery.

Requirements

Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE).

• Software Development: Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining a backend service and associated client interface for the benefit of other product and engineering staff developing products for customers.
• Problem Solving: Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS protocols.
• Cloud-Native Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native services, including deep proficiency with container registries, orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS), object storage (buckets), managed PostgreSQL, serverless functions, networking (VPCs/service mesh), identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and pub/sub messaging systems.

Qualifications

You’re a fit for the role of Staff Platform Engineer- Materia AI if your background includes:

• Fluent in Go, Python, Rust, or another systems level language.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform and CUE.
• Experience with AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, LLM evaluation tools, and AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Experience owning SOC 2 compliant systems end to end.
• Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.
• Strong opinions on infrastructure design, end to end testing strategies, automation, middleware, and RPC/REST API designs patterns.

Skills

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform and CUE.
• Experience with AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, LLM evaluation tools, and AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Experience owning SOC 2 compliant systems end to end.
• Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.
• Strong opinions on infrastructure design, end to end testing strategies, automation, middleware, and RPC/REST API designs patterns.

Benefits

This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

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