AI Software/ Platform Engineer

About the job 6 month contract to hire, W2 only, unable to provide sponsorship Fully Remote AI Software/ Platform Engineer: Must haves: 2+ years experience in full stack software engineering Strong Golang development Knowledgeable around platform/ infrastructure/ network engineering Strong AI orchestration tool experience- Need to be able to “Build Things” using these tools Experience leveraging AI development tools in production (Cursor, Claude, Copilot, etc.) Kubernetes and AWS experience Knowledge around virtualization, Linux/ command line scripting CICD pipeline experience Pluses: Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu Ansible Day to day: An employer is seeking an AI Software / Platform Engineer to join our Platform team within the Product and Technology Group (PTX). This role will drive the modernization of our infrastructure by leading the migration of workloads from traditional Windows VMs to cloud-native Kubernetes clusters managed by Rancher, while contributing to full stack development when the team needs it—building or improving internal tools, APIs, and automation that make the platform workflows more effective. Key responsibilities will include: • Design, implement, and maintain GitOps-driven infrastructure using GitLab/GitHub, OpenTofu/Terraform, and Ansible. • Own and evolve database DevOps practices—source control, migrations, and automated testing • Contribute to full stack development as needed: build or improve internal tools, APIs, dashboards, or operator UIs that support the platform and our teams. • Build and enhance centralized logging, monitoring, and observability capabilities across the platform. • Rapidly diagnose and resolve environment issues in collaboration with the Platform & Networking team. • Maintain up-to-date, high-quality documentation and infrastructure-as-code repositories. • Continuously improve automation, security, reliability, and cost efficiency of the platform.