Member of Technical Staff - Platform
Valkai· Engineering
Hybrid (New York, NY (on-site 0-? days per week dependent on role))Full TimePosted 1mo ago
About the role
You'll build the secure, reliable systems beneath Valkai's agents and products. The scope spans compute, storage, deployment, data pipelines, indexing, and retrieval. You will make these systems observable and dependable across cloud and self-hosted environments while helping the engineering team ship quickly.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate reliable infrastructure across sandboxes, clusters, databases, caches, vector databases, and object storage.
- Improve deployment and upgrade systems for cloud and self-hosted environments.
- Build observability, incident response, performance, and capacity systems for production services.
- Improve continuous integration, delivery, and developer workflows.
- Build integrations, indexing pipelines, and retrieval infrastructure that make enterprise knowledge useful to agents.
- Strengthen platform security through isolation, access controls, hardening, testing, and compliance work.
- Own systems from architecture and implementation through production operation and long-term improvement.
Qualifications
- Strong systems fundamentals: You reason clearly about reliability, performance, security, data consistency, and failure modes.
- Production ownership: You are comfortable operating the systems you build and improving them based on real incidents and usage.
- Pragmatic engineering judgment: You can balance immediate product needs with the foundations required for long-term scale.
- High agency: You can find the highest-leverage infrastructure problem, create a plan, and drive it to completion.
- Security-minded thinking: You treat sensitive data, access controls, isolation, and auditability as core design constraints.
- Clear collaborators: You make infrastructure understandable and work closely with product and AI engineers.
Skills
Required:Systems fundamentalsProduction ownershipPragmatic engineeringSecurity-minded thinkingCollaboration
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Generous PTO policy.
- Paid parental leave.
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Valkai
Agent Systems for Life Sciences
Valkai brings life back to life sciences — Agent Systems that coordinate and automate complex workflows across teams.
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