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Senior Software Engineer - Platform

C3 AI· Engineering
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Redwood City, CA$145k - $198kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior level role focused on designing, building, and maintaining core platform features, frameworks, and development tools to support enterprise-scale AI applications, with emphasis on automation, infrastructure, and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain core platform services, frameworks, and developer tools used across an enterprise-scale AI platform.
  • Design and maintain robust automation for testing, integration, and deployment across a distributed development organization.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation to provision, manage, and improve cloud environments reliably and consistently.
  • Build and maintain internal tools and services that improve engineering productivity, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
  • Support engineering workflows, release automation, version control integration, code validation, and platform rule enforcement.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational quality of platform services, frameworks, and automation systems.
  • Partner closely with software engineering and product management teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
  • Own features end-to-end, including design, documentation, implementation, testing, maintenance, and mentoring engineers on engineering standards and best practices.

Qualifications

  • B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 3+ years of backend, platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience in production environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Java and one or more scripting or automation languages such as Python, Shell, or Groovy.
  • Experience designing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release automation, and testing workflows.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform, and cloud environment provisioning or management.
  • Familiarity with Go for infrastructure tooling, automation, or cloud platform development.
  • Experience designing and developing scalable platform services, frameworks, APIs, developer-facing tools, or engineering workflow systems.
  • Hands-on understanding of software development principles, design patterns, testing, debugging, observability, and performance analysis.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach with a strong sense of ownership, independence, and operational accountability.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across engineering, infrastructure, release, and product teams.

Skills

Required:JavaPython, Shell, or GroovyCI/CDTerraformDistributed systemsObservabilityOwnership and accountability
Nice to have:Go

Benefits

  • C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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