Platform Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Platform Engineer (Go/Kubernetes): Designing and operating a secure, high-scale sandboxed execution environment for AI agents with an accent on virtualization and container runtimes. Focus on building distributed systems to accelerate foundation model training and experimentation.

Location: Remote (EMEA/East Coast)

Company

Poolside is an AI company building agentic systems and frontier models to reshape the developer experience and accelerate the path to AGI.

What you will do

• Design and develop a secure, reliable, and performant sandboxed execution environment to facilitate AI Agent research and product development.
• Own the full development cycle of new features and capabilities within the Agent execution environment.
• Collaborate with research and product teams to define and meet their needs for code execution.
• Continuously improve the reliability and performance of systems supporting millions of environments.
• Explore and evaluate advanced isolation and virtualization techniques.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or other systems programming languages.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and solving their complexities.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes or similar container/VM orchestration systems and public clouds (AWS, GCP).
• Experience in virtualization or container runtimes.
• Experience building large-scale CI/CD platforms.
• Must be based in EMEA or the US East Coast.

Nice to have

• Experience building systems to support large-scale machine learning workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible hours.
• 37 days of annual vacation and holidays.
• Health insurance allowance for employees and their dependents.
• 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave.
• Company-provided equipment, well-being, and home office allowances.
• Frequent team get-togethers, including monthly 3-day sessions in Paris.

Hiring process

• Intro call with the Sandboxes Team Lead.
• Technical interviews with members of the Engineering team.
• Team fit call with the People team.
• Final interview with one of the Founding Engineers.