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Senior Platform Engineer

$130
per hour
Contractor Remote Last verified 21 Jul 2026
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About the Role

In this role, you'll apply your cloud infrastructure and platform engineering expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world engineering input. No prior experience in AI is required - your domain knowledge and hands-on production experience are what matter. As an expert, you will create Reinforcement Learning Environments that test an AI model’s ability to design, deploy, troubleshoot, secure, scale, and recover production-grade cloud infrastructure.

What You'll Do

  • Complete assigned tasks according to the project brief.
  • Collaborate with the micro1 team.
  • Deliver consistent, high-quality work on schedule.

You're a Good Fit If You

  • Required skills: Cloud Benchmark Task Authoring, Cloud and Distributed Systems Architecture, Production Infrastructure Ownership
  • Senior-level cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE experience, including personal ownership of a production platform.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios.
  • Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
  • Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery.
  • Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language.

Role Highlights

Pay
$60-$130/h
Contract
Contractor
Location
Remote
Category
Coding
Posted
13 days ago
Job ID
WE-7123

Pay & Payout

Engaged directly through micro1. Apply via the link below - micro1 handles onboarding and payment.

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Complete assigned tasks according to the project brief. Collaborate with the micro1 team. Deliver consistent, high-quality work on schedule.

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