Staff Platform Engineer

The role

You will own the substrate for deploying the webAI kernel and B2B SDK across bare metal, cloud, and Apple-silicon fleets. You will lead the move to a next-generation architecture and build deployment kits for forward-deployed engineers.

What you will do

• Own deployment for the webAI kernel and B2B SDK across single-machine, multi-node, and cloud installs.
• Choose and evolve the orchestration approach.
• Run Apple-silicon fleets in production.
• Build the inference serving layer with the AI team.
• Own the software supply chain including GitLab CI and container artifacts.
• Secure the platform using secrets management, PKI, and identity integration.
• Build observability and audit systems.
• Define high availability, reliability levels, and SLOs.
• Write runbooks, recipes, and RCAs.
• Work with kernel engineers on networking and deployment.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production infrastructure.
• At least some experience on bare metal or on-prem.
• Deep experience with at least one workload orchestrator (Nomad or Kubernetes).
• Strong Terraform and configuration management (Ansible or similar).
• Production experience with AWS, Azure, or both.
• Solid networking fundamentals including VPN overlays, firewalls, NAT, load balancers, DNS, and TLS.
• Experience with secrets and identity (Vault or equivalent, PKI/mTLS, OIDC).
• CI/CD and release engineering in GitLab.
• Observability experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Loki or equivalent.
• Proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust or Go).
• Scripting in Python/Bash.
• Clear technical writing for runbooks, design docs and RCAs.

Nice to have

• macOS fleet administration at scale
• Running local LLM inference
• Air-gapped or disconnected delivery
• Peer-to-peer or QUIC networking
• Writing Kubernetes operators/controllers or Nomad tooling
• Customer-facing deployment experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
• High-deductible HSA option with company contribution
• 401k match (US-based only)
• Flexible PTO Policy
• Parental leave for eligible employees
• Continuing education support
• Basic, company-paid life insurance
• Supplemental life insurance
• Company-paid short and long term disability
• Free parking for in-office employees

About the company

webAI is establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI. The company aims to build an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of users.