EarnIn
StaffPlatformEngineer
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“Staff Platform Engineer at EarnIn. Skills: Agentic AI architecture, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, AI/ML Systems. Design foundational patterns for AI agents. Establish guardrails for AI agents”
What You'll Achieve.
Eliminate toil; Multiply platform leverage; Reduce toil; Increase platform leverage; Focus on high-value work
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting deployments; Anomaly detection; Performance challenges; Scalability challenges; Stability challenges
On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's or Master's degree, 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Proven experience mentoring senior engineers, Lead company-wide platform initiatives, Architecting and scaling AI-driven systems, Designing multi-step agentic workflows, Eliminating operational workflows through agentic AI, Mastery of AWS, Deep expertise in containerized architectures, Deep expertise in serverless architectures, Expertise in Kubernetes at scale, Deep knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools, Mastery of Datadog, Advanced observability, Coding expertise in Python, Coding expertise in Go
Nice to Have
Experience building AI-driven alerting, Experience building root-cause analysis systems, Experience with service mesh, Experience with traffic management at scale, Proficiency with GitOps, Proficiency with CI/CD orchestration, Experience with MLOps concepts, Experience with LLMOps concepts, Familiarity with security frameworks for AI, Familiarity with guardrails for LLMs, Familiarity with audit logging for LLMs, Familiarity with data governance for LLMs
What You'll Do.
Design foundational patterns for AI agents
Establish guardrails for AI agents
Establish IaC best practices for agentic systems
Mentor senior engineers in agentic patterns
Mentor senior engineers in LLM integration
Mentor senior engineers in prompt engineering
Lead cross-functional initiatives
Align agentic AI adoption with company objectives
Oversee large-scale distributed systems on AWS
Identify performance challenges
Solve scalability challenges
Solve stability challenges
Use AI-driven observability
Use anomaly detection
Lead evolution of IaC standards
Incorporate agentic patterns into operations
Incorporate automated remediation into operations
Shape evolution of developer control plane
Drive AI-powered golden paths
Encode platform standards
Encode security policies
Encode best practices
Act as liaison between teams
Develop documentation on agentic architecture
Develop documentation on best practices
Develop documentation on operational procedures
Participate in on-call rotations
Lead on-call rotations
Use post-mortems for feedback
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional initiatives; Engineering, product, security teams; Cloud operations, AI infrastructure; Business stakeholders
Communication Scope
Technical depth; Business impact
Process & Methodology
Platform initiatives
Full Job Description
About EarnIn As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. POSITION SUMMARY We are the Platform-as-a-Service Engineering team at EarnIn. We build the foundational "Paved Road" that enables our product teams to ship with velocity and safety. Our stack is built on AWS, EKS, and ArgoCD, but our future is Agentic. We are shifting from manual configuration to AI-augmented orchestration, in which the platform anticipates developers' needs and self-heals through intelligent automation. We're seeking a Staff Platform Engineer (I5A) who is a strategic leader and AI-native architect. You will set the vision and strategy for how agentic AI transforms platform engineering, architect solutions across Kubernetes (AWS EKS), GitOps (Argo CD), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and our developer portal (Cortex), and mentor senior engineers to build and operate AI agents that eliminate toil and multiply platform leverage. As a Staff Engineer, you are a thought leader across the organization. You will define the technical direction for agentic patterns, drive company-wide adoption of AI-driven workflows, and establish frameworks and best practices that enable your team and other platform teams to design and deploy production AI systems with confidence. You will architect solutions that turn fragmented workflows into AI-power
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