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.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

architecting software systemsbuilding scalable software systemsdesigning production systemsdeploying production systemsKubernetesAWSTerraformPythonTypeScriptimplementing observability

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationmentoringcreativityreliabilityobservabilitymaintainabilityhigh-agencyremote-first workbalancing experimentation