Platform Engineer
Zyphra· Product
San FranciscoFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Platform Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining Zyphra's infrastructure to be robust, observable, secure, and scalable, ensuring reliability and reproducibility of ML workloads, safe deployments, and maintainable compute environments.
Responsibilities
- Building and improving observability systems (monitoring, logging, alerting)
- Managing Infrastructure as a Service across the stack along with CI/CD in close partnership with engineering teams
- Designing resilient build and deployment systems across research and production environments
- Implementing secure release processes with strong auditability and rollback support
- Collaborating closely with ML engineers, DevOps, and infra teams to improve system reliability and performance
- Leading incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems with a focus on learning and prevention
- This role is ideal for someone who loves building systems that make other teams faster, safer, and more productive
Qualifications
- Experience in high-performance compute environments, such as ML clusters or GPU farms as well as hyperscaler cloud environments (i.e. AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Background in infrastructure as code (i.e., Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Familiarity with containers (i.e., Docker, Apptainer) and their integration with scheduling systems (i.e., Kubernetes, Slurm)
- Familiarity with software release engineering for ML/AI systems is a plus
- Experience managing run-books, DRP, change management, and general fault tolerance
- Experience with deployment strategies at scale
- Experience designing reliable environments for experimental workloads and reproducible runs
- Knowledge of compliance and audit standards in deployment and system security
- Experience with load testing, fault injection, and chaos engineering to harden systems under stress
- Passion for building tooling that makes infrastructure invisible and reliable for end users
Skills
Required:Infrastructure as CodeCloud PlatformsContainerization and SchedulingSecurity & ComplianceIncident Response & Postmortems
Nice to have:Release Engineering for ML/AI
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
- In-office snacks and meals provided
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
- In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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