Key skills
AWSKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScriptAIMLLLMCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Architect new agent runtime infrastructure that will support us scaling to the next 100x users
- Implement the foundations of multi-person apps and realtime collaboration features
- Design systems that support lab schools redesigning education from the ground up
- from AI-native curricula to entirely new operational models
- Collaborate with the ML team to select and build data infrastructure that can power realtime steering of LLM interactions
- Work with product and app engineering to create secure, ephemeral backend sandboxes that enable power users to add sophisticated custom functionality to the apps they’re creating on Playlab
- Contribute to open sourcing components of our platform and supporting country-specific and self-hosted deployments
- Research, make tradeoffs, design and implement the core systems that enable us to rapidly iterate on AI-native educational experiences
- Help design the engineering culture and technical strategy
- Stay on top of new technologies, platforms and techniques to unlock new functionality and improve existing features
- Work cross functionally and with customers so your system designs support the real needs of users as well as engineering goals
- Balance experimentation with production excellence
- be quick and creative when exploring new possibilities, ensure reliability, observability, and maintainability when productionizing systems
- Take security and privacy seriously and work it into your architectural decisions
- Work with product and engineering to both set and support the roadmap
- Mentor engineers on system design and platform engineering through pairing and reviews.
Requirements
- 10+ years architecting and building scalable software systems
- Strong experience designing and deploying production systems on Kubernetes and AWS, ideally with Terraform
- Strong experience implementing observability, monitoring, and redundancy for critical systems
- Proficient in Python or TypeScript (ideally both)
- Experience with security and privacy considerations when designing multi-tenant infrastructure processing sensitive data
- Thrive in high-agency, high collaboration cultures
- Great communication that makes working remote-first work.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Terraform
- TypeScript
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities