Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. They are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer to help evolve their internal developer platform into an AI-first, intelligent system that enhances infrastructure self-service and automation.
Responsibilities
- Partner with platform leadership to evolve the internal developer platform toward an AI-first model
- Translate strategic direction into practical, scalable implementations
- Help shape platform capabilities through hands-on engineering and technical input
- Design and implement self-service infrastructure systems that abstract away cloud complexity
- Build APIs, CLIs, and developer-facing tools that enable infrastructure provisioning without requiring deep cloud expertise
- Introduce AI-assisted interfaces (CLI, chat, UI) for provisioning, debugging, and operations
- Design, build, and operate secure, multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters
- Contribute to platform architecture, scalability, cost optimization, and reliability
- Implement policy, networking, and workload isolation best practices
- Build systems that interpret infrastructure signals (logs, metrics, events) and provide actionable insights
- Develop AI-assisted workflows for incident triage, root cause analysis, and runbook generation/execution
- Enable human-in-the-loop automation for safe and controlled remediation
- Build platform SDKs, CLIs, and service templates that standardize infrastructure consumption
- Contribute to AI-powered copilots and assistants that improve developer productivity
- Enable natural language interaction with platform services where appropriate
- Implement reusable infrastructure patterns and opinionated defaults
- Encode security, scalability, and compliance into platform tooling
- Extend Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., OpenTofu) with abstraction and validation layers
- Implement logging, metrics, and tracing across platform systems
- Leverage AI to detect anomalies, summarize system behavior, and surface actionable insights
- Contribute to systems that move from visibility to guided action
- Contribute to platform instrumentation and feedback loops
- Use data and developer feedback to improve usability, performance, and adoption
- Continuously refine platform capabilities based on real-world usage
- Work closely with application teams, SREs, and security engineers
- Support platform adoption through strong technical partnership
- Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers where needed
Skills
- 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering role
- Proven experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms
- Deep expertise in Amazon Web Services, especially EKS, IAM, and networking
- Strong programming skills (Python or Go), with experience building production-grade tools and services
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and cloud-native architectures
- Experience or strong interest in integrating AI/LLMs into developer or operational workflows
- Familiarity with APIs from providers like OpenAI or similar
- Understanding of event-driven architectures and their role in intelligent automation
- Ability to design adaptive, feedback-driven systems rather than static workflows
- Experience building developer tooling (CLIs, portals, SDKs)
- Familiarity with platforms like Backstage, Port, or custom developer portals
- Strong product mindset with a focus on usability and developer experience
- Strong systems thinking and architectural design skills
- Ability to operate independently while aligning with platform direction
- Effective communication and cross-team collaboration skills
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Employee Equity Appreciation Program
- Health and wellness insurance benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible work environment
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
- Best in class technology equipment for every employee
- Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field
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