Senior Digital Platforms Engineer

Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they've operated for decades — because the controls programming is hard-coded. Thousands of lines of rules and heuristics that define how the machines interact with each other. The result of all this hard-coding is that facilities are frozen in time, unable to adapt to their environment while their performance slowly degrades.

Phaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. We use reinforcement learning algorithms to provide this intelligence, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions. We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs — perfect for reinforcement learning. We enable domain experts (our users) to configure the AI control systems (i.e. agents) without writing code. They define what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them.

Our team has a track record of applying AI to some of the toughest problems. From achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind's AlphaGo, to reducing the energy required to cool Google's Data Centers by 40%, we deeply understand AI and how to apply it in production for massive impact. Phaidra is based in the USA, but we are 100% remote with no physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR.

You will develop and own key parts of Phaidra's internal developer platform, including golden paths, GitOps workflows, and cloud-native foundations that product and ML teams depend on. Comfortable partnering across engineering, SRE, and security in an all-remote setting.

• Own the delivery of a scoped set of developer platform capabilities end-to-end (design, implementation, rollout, iteration).
• Build and evolve paved roads (golden paths, service templates, scaffolding) that make it easy to deploy, operate, and scale services.
• Run tight feedback loops with engineers across product and ML teams; Harden CI/CD on GitLab CI, including pipeline performance, safety, and developer ergonomics.

Infrastructure Foundations

• Partner with infrastructure/SRE owners on Kubernetes and core cloud foundations (networking, storage, cluster/platform primitives) where it directly improves developer workflows.

5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE.

• Production experience operating in at least one major cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Experience building or operating key components of an internal developer platform (e.g., self-service deployment/operations workflows, golden paths/service templates, developer portals, platform APIs, or developer tooling).
• Terraform plus a configuration system (Kapitan, Helm, Kustomize, or similar).
• Software engineering experience in a major high-level language. Comfortable writing libraries, CLIs or APIs.
• Experience in organizations with distinct platform and productivity engineering functions.
• Hands-on AI/ML infrastructure at scale: GPU scheduling, distributed training, model serving, vector stores, or feature stores.
• Kubernetes operator development and deployment.
• Languages: Python, Go, Bash.

You will have a solid understanding of Phaidra's platform and how engineering and research teams consume it. You will have met with team members across Phaidra and started building collaborative relationships. You will have completed the onboarding exercise and shipped a first scoped platform improvement (golden path, GitOps change, or self-service tool). You will be comfortable with our tooling and drive a cross-team platform initiative with measurable developer impact.

We are a 100% remote company. Competitive compensation & meaningful equity. Outsized responsibilities & professional development. Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training. Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region). Unlimited paid time off, with a required minimum of 20 days per year. Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region). Flexible stipends to support your workspace, well-being, and continued professional development.

On being Remote: We take a thoughtful and intentional approach to remote collaboration. Inspired by pioneers like GitLab, we embrace proven best practices to foster an exceptional remote work environment. While we value independence, we stay closely connected through tools like Slack and video conferencing. Weekly all-hands meetings help us align and build strong relationships, and we regularly host virtual team-building activities and social events to maintain a sense of camaraderie.

Employment with Phaidra is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. We welcome diversity and strive to maintain an inclusive environment for all employees.

Phaidra participates in E-Verify, an employment authorization database provided through the U.LI-Remote. To be considered for any position at Phaidra, you must submit an online application. Candidates requiring visa sponsorship, either now or in the future, are not eligible for hire. All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of employment authorization verification and applicable background checks, in accordance with local laws and company policies.