Senior Platform Engineer

Cerebrium is a serverless infrastructure platform that makes it easy for companies to build and scale data/AI workloads. With just a team of 4 across the US and South Africa, we scaled to doing millions in revenue, serving some of the most ambitious AI teams from Seed to Series C and are backed by world class investors like Gradient Ventures (Googles AI fund) and Y Combinator with over $8m in funding.

We obsess over performance - providing low latency, high scalability, and reliability to our clients. This has led us to engineering core components across our stack from from the ground up, including our own content-aware file system, custom image building pipeline, as well as optimizing our storage and network layers. Every decision we make is driven by the experience we want to unlock for developers: fast, reliable, and intuitive.

You’ll work alongside a team that has founded and exited companies, led engineering teams of 80+ engineers, and built distributed systems at scale across multiple industries. You’ll learn a lot—but you’ll also be expected to take ownership, move quickly, and directly influence the direction of our product.

The Role

As a platform engineer at Cerebrium, you’ll work across our backend, frontend, and Python SDK to build and refine the core developer experience. You’ll help shape everything from databases to cloud infrastructure, constantly iterating based on user feedback to make it effortless for engineers to build and scale data/AI workloads. We’re looking for someone who’s comfortable working across the stack, enjoys solving hard technical problems, and can take full ownership of a task—from initial discovery and technical validation, through implementation and release, to incorporating feedback from real users in production.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance systems
• Write clean, well-structured, and maintainable code with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and long-term scalability.
• Perform code reviews, unit testing, and system testing to ensure high, durable code quality.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to get their applications into production - we chat with them in Slack and Discord
• Be versatile and open-minded - learn new technologies, experiment with different frameworks, and adapt as the platform evolves.

Stack:

• Javascript/Typescript
• Python
• Go
• Databases: Clickhouse, DynamoDB, MySQL
• Observability: Prometheus/Open Telemetry

How we work:

• We focus on output. We don’t care what hours you work or from where you work. Just do what it takes to meet your weekly sprint. Finished early or just not having a good day - take the day.
• We have a flat structure and want to constantly to be challenged by you. In terms of product and company decisions - tell us what you think!
• We ship multiple times a day - every time we can add value to the customer we ship it. Also you do weekly demos to team members on what you have been building.
• This position is hybrid in our Manhattan (NYC) location 3 days a week.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Company Laptop (Mac obviously) and Monitor
• Health, dental, and vision benefits with 80% coverage for you
• Unlimited PTO
• 2 company off-sites a year. We have previously done Rio, Budapest, Tulum and Athens.
• Learning budget, and much more