Founding Platform Engineer
ConcentrateAi
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Jan 24, 2026
Concentrate AI provides a unified, OpenAI-compatible API to access, route, and manage LLMs. We save our customers time, cut costs, and reduce risk. We sit in the hot path of high-volume AI traffic and logs.
We’re seed stage, well-funded, and in stealth. We’re hiring our first dedicated platform leader.
This role is fully remote.
The Role
You will own production infrastructure, reliability, and security. Your job is to make the platform secure, scalable, and reliable as usage grows fast. Going zero to one excites you.
Key Areas of Ownership:
- Platform Architecture: Design and operate a secure, resilient, multi-cloud platform
- Reliability & Scale: Operate high-throughput distributed systems; define SLOs, capacity models, and cost controls
- Deployments & Incidents: Ensure safe releases, fast rollbacks, strong observability, and effective incident response
- Security & Compliance: Infrastructure ownership for SOC 2 and similar regimes (access controls, isolation, encryption, auditability)
- Developer Velocity: Improve the local-to-prod experience to unlock engineering speed
Tech Stack
- Cloud: AWS (primary), GCP, Azure
- Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Helm
- CI/CD & Operations: GitLab, GitOps-style deployment workflows
- Data & Caching: PostgreSQL, Redis
- Observability & On-Call: Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty
- Backend: Node.js / TypeScript
What We’re Looking for
- 10+ years in platform / infra / SRE / DevOps
- Has run large-scale distributed systems (high traffic, large data)
- Experience in early-stage startups (or founder background); comfortable with speed
- Deep expertise in networking fundamentals
- Comfortable reading and reviewing backend code
- Experience in regulated or uptime-critical domains (finance, healthcare, logistics, etc.)
- Bonus: active open-source contributor
Comp: Base + bonus + meaningful equity
Location: US-remote