Staff Platform Engineer

Inworld AIVancouver, CA
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About the Role

Join Inworld AI as a Staff Platform Engineer, where you will collaborate with backend and ML engineers to build, secure, and scale our cutting-edge AI engine for games. Your role will involve deploying and maintaining services across major cloud providers using Terraform and other tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with backend and ML engineering teams to design, deploy, and maintain reliable, high-performance, and secure cloud infrastructure for our AI engine and Studio.
  • Facilitate a "you build it, you run it" culture by providing tools for monitoring reliability and performance of services.
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth code integration and deployment.
  • Identify and implement opportunities to improve engineering speed and efficiency.
  • Conduct root cause analysis and develop automated solutions to address critical issues.

About the Candidate

  • Must have 7 years of experience in software engineering.
  • 5 years of experience with infrastructure-as-code is required.
  • Proficiency in managing Kubernetes clusters, including creating Kustomize manifests/Helm charts.
  • Experience in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Terraform, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.
  • Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud).
  • Proficient in at least one backend programming language (Golang, Python, Bash).
  • Experience with GPUs is optional but considered a plus.

About the Company

Inworld AI is the best-funded startup in AI and games with a $500 million valuation backed by investors such as Intel Capital and Microsoft’s M12 fund. We enable developers to build agentic experiences with a framework designed for real-time data ingestion and low latency. Our clients include major companies like Ubisoft and NVIDIA.

Company Culture and Benefits

Inworld offers a dynamic work environment recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies in 2024. The base salary range for this full-time position is between CAD $170,000 and CAD $220,000, along with bonus equity benefits. Your recruiter will provide more details during the hiring process.