Founding Senior Platform Engineer, Magentic

• Have deep cloud mastery of Azure and/or AWS
• Strong experience with containers and orchestration
• Are an enthusiastic student/hobbyist of AI able to leverage agent-assisted development
• Have managed production clusters at scale with IaC in security-certified companies
• Have experience working with development teams to make their lives easier
• Can take a loosely defined problem, sketch an architecture, and deliver a production-ready solution in days or weeks, not months
• Have the experience to know what is needed now and what can come later
• Can communicate clearly with both engineers and business stakeholders

Desirable

• We're looking for the first member of our Platform Engineering team to build, scale and own the infrastructure that powers Magentic's AI procurement solution
• Design, build and own the cloud-native backbone that powers our AI agent workers at scale
• Shape a multi-tenant, multi-cloud platform (we deploy were our customers are) following IaC and GitOps best practices, while balancing speed, cost and security
• Work with the development team to design processes for secure software delivery (GitHub workflows, AI agent tooling for reviews, security and compliance)
• Make our systems, both AI and non-AI, highly observable
• Champion security, compliance and automation to turn them into an advantage, instead of friction

• Initial call (30 mins): this first step is an opportunity for you to hear more about Magentic and the role, and for us to learn more about how your experience aligns with the role
• Design interview with the CTO or Founding Engineer (45-60 mins): in this step, we present you with real problems Magentic encounters, and we ask you to design a solution in a whiteboarding exercise
• Take home task (2-3 hours): we'll give you an exercise to demonstrate the key skills for the role
• A) In-person interview: for the final step, we invite you to come meet the team in-person and work alongside us! We find this is the best way for candidates to get a sense of what working at Magentic is like. This day will include a culture interview, some live coding work and a discussion of your work with the team
• B) CEO interview (30 mins): a chance for you to meet Robin, hear about his vision for the company - this may happen at the in-person, dependent on scheduling constraints