DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Platforms - Palo Alto, United States
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role owns the foundational pipelines, platforms, and systems supporting ML training and evaluation workloads and EDA tool flows. You will own infrastructure-as-code (IaC), continuous integration & deployment (CI/CD), and cloud platform operations end-to-end.
What you'll do
- Design, build out, and extend the self-managed cloud platform with Terraform, setting the IaC patterns for the rest of the team. - Own platform deployments spanning various environments day to day, including performance, security, reliability, scalability, and adapting to evolving business requirements. - Design, implement, and operate CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for repositories with strict security and deployment restrictions. - Architect scalable AI tooling and developer experience workflows across multiple distinct user environments in collaboration with physical design (PD) engineers. - Build out the observability stack covering pipeline health, application-level metrics, and ML workloads.
What you'll need
- BS in CS, CE, EE, or a closely related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. - 4+ years of hands-on infrastructure/platform engineering, with ownership of production systems others depend on. - Experience owning production IaC architecture, including maintenance and new feature development. - Track record of designing and implementing production CI/CD pipelines that build and ship reproducible artifacts. - Prior experience with observability tooling for monitoring pipeline health and application-level metrics.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions, including custom runner setups. - Experience running ML infrastructure for training and evaluation workloads, including GPU/TPU compute. - Familiarity with LLM observability tooling: tracing, evaluations, and cost & latency monitoring. - Security depth: dependency supply-chain hardening, OIDC-based auth, least-privilege secrets, and compliance work such as SOC 2 or penetration testing. - Early-stage startup experience building infrastructure from zero or near-zero.
Skills: Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, cloud platform
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 54-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1009
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$223k
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| Metric | Ricursive Intelligence | All employers we track in this specialty (1009 roles · 91 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 1009 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 3 | 6292 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 1 d | 54 d (−53 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $223k |
Skills observed across this category: Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, cloud platform
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 282 open roles · median 53 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 28 d
- Intel Corporation · 49 open roles · median 13 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 102 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 92 d
How we counted: 1009 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 91 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.