Platform Engineer

Gather AI is pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence through their vision-powered platform that utilizes autonomous drones to enhance supply chain efficiency. The Platform Engineer will be responsible for owning architecture, modernizing systems, mentoring talent, and establishing engineering standards to improve delivery speed and maintainability.

Responsibilities:

• Own Architecture: Align backend, frontend, platform, and infrastructure decisions into a coherent, enterprise-grade architecture
• Reflect Excellence: Replace "firefighting" with predictable execution. You will lead the effort to retire scalability and reliability debt, safely upgrade critical infrastructure, and reduce single-threaded dependencies
• Set Direction: Set the standard for engineering technical hygiene. You will drive high-level decisions on testing strategies, validation guardrails, and system design concerns that directly impact delivery speed and maintainability
• Evolve Systems: Modernize and scale existing production systems by applying database-level strategies (schema evolution, replication tradeoffs) and platform primitives (orchestration, runtime constraints) as architectural tools
• Mentor: Elevate the organization by establishing shared practices, aligning terminology, and mentoring senior talent across the engineering team
• Exhibit First-Principles Thinking: Establish a deep understanding of data systems, latency-sensitive services, and failure modes

Requirements:

• Mastery of performance-sensitive REST APIs, caching strategies, and core distributed systems concepts
• Expert-level PostgreSQL (upgrades, query tuning, replication tradeoffs, and schema evolution) and advanced SQL
• Deep experience with Azure and/or AWS and production-grade Kubernetes/Docker
• Strong production experience in Node.js and/or Python
• Hands-on experience with Observability (logs, metrics, traces), CI/CD, SRE fundamentals (SLIs/SLOs), and security hygiene (IAM, secrets management)
• Experience in logistics, warehouse systems, or robotics-adjacent platforms is a plus, but not required
• If you have operated at a slightly smaller scale but can reason clearly about 'what breaks next' (e.g., multi-regional architectures or advanced data governance), we will help you bridge that gap
• While we value experience driving org-wide standards, we don't expect perfection on day one. We look for the intent to elevate our shared practices as you build trust
• At Gather, we are at the leading edge of both applied classical ML and next-gen LLM/VLM AI. Come prepared to work with the latest and greatest tooling