Member of Technical Staff - Platform Foundations
New York, NY • FullTime
Posted 4mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Infrastructure Engineer
About the job
Reflection is building a company-wide foundations platform to accelerate every engineering team by providing reliable, scalable developer infrastructure, SRE capabilities, and high-throughput data ingestion tooling. This team builds and operates the core platform layer that all engineering teams depend on, defining opinionated golden paths for cloud infrastructure, networking, and access patterns. The goal is to ensure engineers can ship quickly and safely without sacrificing reliability, security, or cost predictability, enabling the development of open foundational models.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain golden paths for cloud projects, networking, and access patterns.
- Ship secure defaults and guardrails that make the safe path the easy path.
- Build and operate core networking primitives including routing, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity.
- Establish baseline observability and operational hygiene across services and infrastructure.
- Own developer infrastructure such as build systems, CI/CD, caching, and test infrastructure.
- Drive cloud cost visibility and reduction through tooling, guardrails, and optimization.
Requirements
- Strong infrastructure or platform engineering background with experience shipping production-grade systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one of: cloud platforms, network engineering, security architecture, or developer tooling, with working knowledge across the others.
- Comfortable navigating complex multi-team environments, debugging hard infrastructure problems, and building for reliability and scale.
- Thrive in a high-agency, fast-paced environment with a bias toward action and impact.
- Excited about zero to one challenges and building new systems.
- Collaborative, clear communicator, comfortable working across research and infrastructure boundaries.
- Motivated by creating secure, self-serve foundations for AI systems.
Benefits
- Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain talent globally.
- Stock options.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Annual wellness allowance.
- Provided lunch and dinner in the office daily.
- 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Unlimited paid time off in the U.S.
- 30 days paid time off in the U.K.
- Visa sponsorship support.
- Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.