[Remote] Staff AI Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pilotbase is building a connected system that integrates flight schools, pilots, and industry partners. The Staff AI Platform Engineer will own the platform and tooling to enhance developer productivity and streamline software development processes across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Evolve AI use throughout the SDLC — develop, evaluate, and operate autonomous agents and AI tooling that augment how we plan, code, review, and ship, with the governance (access, guardrails, cost, and quality controls) to run them safely at scale
- Maintain the Pilotbase monorepos — workspace dependency graphs, code sharing, and library publishing across 20+ shared libraries (types, validation schemas, utilities, API clients)
- Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, build performance, container builds, and deployments as well as establish quality gates such as testing, and PR checks
- Co-manage cloud infrastructure — AWS ECS/Fargate, ALB, ECR, CloudFront, and Terraform IaC
- Strengthen authentication and authorization — enterprise SSO, OAuth integrations, and shared auth providers across web and mobile apps
- Build and operate the feature flag services to enable safe deployment of new capabilities
- Drive design system adoption
- Own database tooling and migrations across a mix of technologies
- Reduce developer-experience friction, including local dev setup, environment configuration, and AI tooling
Skills
- An AI-first engineer who reaches for agents and AI tooling by default, with a clear point of view on how they change the way teams build software
- Experience implementing agentic AI frameworks for software development beyond personal coding assistants
- Hands-on experience with monorepo tooling (Nx, Turborepo, or npm/pnpm/yarn workspaces)
- Hands-on with AWS (ECS/Fargate, ALB, ECR, IAM) and Terraform
- Comfortable with CI/CD systems and containerized deployments
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Strong, well-formed opinions on code quality, testing, and developer productivity
- Experience building or operating ML/LLM/AI infrastructure or agentic systems
- Exposure to Next.js and/or React Native / Expo
- Experience building a design system or a feature flag platform
- Experience treating an internal platform as a product
Benefits
- Full benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k) plan)
- Equity Appreciation Plan
- Flexible Time Off policy
- Seven (7) company-wide paid holidays + two (2) floating holidays
- Two (2) wellness days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Professional Development Stipend
- Home Office Stipend
Company Overview