Staff Platform Engineer, AI Systems

Strike

Staff Platform Engineer building secure AI systems for a Bitcoin company. Working within a high-velocity, cloud-native engineering organization leveraging frontier AI capabilities.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $206,000 - $232,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive the Vision: Blend your ability to execute with your ability to strategize.
Build the Internal AI Platform: Create a unified, secure layer that connects AI tools to core platforms.
Define Tiered Autonomy: Design security patterns for different levels of agent independence.
Secure the Frontier: Design auth patterns for agentic access.
Pragmatic Building: Know when to use an LLM and when to write a script.
Force Multiply the Team: Embed with teams to unblock their workflows.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Full Stack Systems DNA: You are a polyglot engineer. You understand the entire stack - from frontend interfaces to backend distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
Frontier AI Proficiency: You are fluent in the current landscape of AI enablement. You have built implementations using patterns like MCP, RAG, function-calling, and evals.
Security-First Mindset: You understand the risks of deploying LLMs in a production environment.
Organizational Influence: You have excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
Pragmatism: You treat AI as a component, not magic.
Ownership: You are an owner at heart. The desire to take ownership of your domain is innate and automatic to you.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity in a high-growth startup
Health, dental, and vision insurance premium contributions
Short & long-term disability insurance and basic life insurance
Cell phone and internet reimbursement
Flexible PTO, sick leave & parental leave
Access to a company 401k plan
No trading fees when you buy and sell bitcoin on Strike

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Hard Skills & Tools

full stack developmentAI implementationMCPRAGfunction-callingevalscloud infrastructurefrontend developmentbackend systemssecurity patterns

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationinfluencingownershippragmatismstrategizingexecutingproblem-solvingteamworkworkflow unblocking