Staff Engineer – Platform & Tooling

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the platform utilized by clients and create the AI development framework for engineers.

• Develop self-service infrastructure, reproducible development environments, sandboxes, guardrails, and evaluations for AI agents.

• Establish QA automation pipelines, automated testing, validation gates, and release checks.

• Coordinate agents across engineering, product workflows, and internal implementation tools.

• Enhance AWS ECS architecture, finish the migration from the previous deployment model, and transition resources to infrastructure as code.

• Create tenant-scoped credentials, per-tenant secrets, enforce least-privilege access, and maintain audit trails.

• Implement monitoring, alerting, tracing, on-call duties, and incident-response playbooks.

• Execute application modifications such as synthetic data, test hooks, and agent specifications.

• Deliver product features using TypeScript and React.

• Document design notes and runbooks, conduct reviews and pair programming with engineers, and mentor engineers in infrastructure practices.

• Work closely with Product and the VP of Engineering regarding technical direction and platform choices.

• Achieve first-six-month objectives, including AI-driven QA automation, ECS migration, platform codification, tenant isolation, least privilege implementation, and monitoring foundations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of experience managing production workloads on AWS ECS or EKS.

• Strong understanding of IAM, networking, and Lambda services.

• Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation, including the transition of existing hand-built resources to code.

• Experience in scaling distributed systems in response to significant growth in load and data.

• Background in single-tenant SaaS, including tenant isolation and safeguarding client data and credentials.

• Experience in security and compliance engineering, covering least privilege, secrets management, and evidence collection for SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

• Practical experience with on-call duties, incident management, post-mortems, and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or Honeycomb.

• Advanced experience with TypeScript and Node.js, along with React.

• Proven history of delivering features from inception to completion.

• Familiarity with designing test automation and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in developing tools for AI agents, including configuration and orchestration, MCP servers or similar integrations, evaluations, and automated reviews.

• Candidates must possess an unrestricted and permanent right to work in the UK.

• No visa sponsorship is available at this time or in the future.

🏝️ Benefits

• No specific benefits, perks, or compensation extras stated in the posting.