Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate to the SF Bay Area. You will be working on-site in our South Bay office a few days a week.

Salary: $180,000 - $280,000

Inworld is building an intelligent runtime to conquer these monsters and make this vision a reality.

Overview

Join our dynamic team as a Compute Platform Engineer and play a pivotal role in building, securing, and scaling our cutting-edge AI engine for games. Collaborate with backend and ML engineers to plan, deploy, and maintain services across major cloud providers using Terraform, ArgoCD and other tooling. As part of our small, collaborative team, your contributions will significantly shape our operations and innovation.

What you will do

• Work closely with backend and ML engineering teams to design, deploy, and maintain reliable, high-performance, and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Facilitate a "you build it, you run it" culture by providing the necessary tools and processes for monitoring the reliability, availability, and performance of services.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and efficient code integration and deployment.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance engineering speed and efficiency.
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify critical issues and develop automated solutions to prevent recurrence.

Requirements

• 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• 5 years of experience with infrastructure-as-code.
• Proficiency in managing Kubernetes clusters and applications, including creating Kustomize manifests/Helm charts for new applications.
• Experience in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for both applications and infrastructure deployments (using tools like Terraform/Terragrunt, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Ansible, etc.).
• Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud).
• Proficient in at least one backend programming/scripting languages such as Golang, Python, and Bash.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPUs (optional).
• Experience with MLOps (huge plus!)

Culture & Benefits

• Total compensation includes equity and benefits.