[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @talentpluto

Role Description

This is the second engineering hire and the owner of the platform. You will be responsible for the entire platform engineering vertical, including:

• User interface
• Backend services
• Customer onboarding
• Fraud detection
• Virtual machine onboarding
• Kubernetes

The core inference engine is owned separately, so your focus is everything that makes the platform usable, reliable, and scalable for customers.

Their team operates on trust and ownership. You and the technical co-founder agree on outcomes and constraints, and the implementation decisions are yours to make. It is a demanding, early-stage environment that suits engineers who want real autonomy, meaningful equity, and the chance to shape a platform from its foundations.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of software engineering experience
• Full-stack capability across UI, backend, and Kubernetes or platform infrastructure
• Prior startup experience and a track record of owning a system end to end
• Demonstrated ability to make significant technical decisions autonomously
• Experience with GPU infrastructure, bare-metal orchestration, or high-performance computing is strongly preferred
• Willingness to work the demanding hours of an early-stage company

Requirements

• Own the platform engineering vertical end to end, from UI to infrastructure
• Build and operate backend services and Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure
• Design customer onboarding, virtual machine onboarding, and fraud detection systems
• Make architecture, tooling, and vendor decisions independently within agreed constraints
• Deliver against high-level goals and communicate approach and outcomes to the team
• Operate costly compute infrastructure responsibly and confidently

Benefits

• Compensation: $180K-$250K base, plus equity
• Remote work model