Staff Platform Engineer at Together AI

Compensation

$240,000 – $280,000/yr

Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: Principal
Posted: Jul 10, 2026

Description

Together AI is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join their Product Foundations engineering organization. This hands-on role focuses on driving the evolution of Product Foundations' core infrastructure strategy, aiming to improve reliability, operability, and deployment safety of their critical services like the API Platform, web UI Platform, Billing, and IAM. The engineer will own the technical direction for service infrastructure, partnering with various teams to implement reusable patterns and establish durable technical standards.

Required Skills

Kubernetes
AWS
Terraform
CDNs
ALBs
DNS
IAM
service networking
Helm charts
GitHub Actions

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 7+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, service infrastructure, SRE, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or related roles.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience building internal developer platforms or paved-path service frameworks used by many engineering teams.
Experience embedding infrastructure best practices into product engineering teams at scale.
Experience with service mesh or zero-trust infrastructure such as mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Cilium, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, or similar.
Experience with OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Sentinel, or other policy-as-code systems.
Experience with multi-region, multi-cluster, hybrid-cloud, or cross-provider service networking.
Experience with supply-chain security, image signing, SBOMs, vulnerability management, or compliance automation.