Senior Platform Engineer II – Server Image Bakery

First American • Santa Ana, CA

2d • Remote

About The Position

First American is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer II to help drive the evolution of our cloud platform capabilities in support of highly scalable, secure, and AI-enabled systems. As a Senior Platform Engineer II, you will autonomously deliver platform capabilities that enable organizational productivity, architecting solutions that balance reliability, performance, cost, and security. You will lead complex initiatives, establish engineering best practices, and play a critical role in enabling AI-driven and agentic development workflows across the enterprise. This role will primarily support our Bakery team, partnering closely with engineers and product stakeholders to enable secure, scalable platform capabilities that accelerate delivery. While Bakery will be your primary focus, you will also have opportunities to contribute to broader platform initiatives across the organization where your expertise can drive meaningful impact. Our organization is deeply focused on advancing AI-assisted and AI-agentic development models. You will help design and build infrastructure, automation frameworks, and governance controls that allow teams to safely and securely leverage AI-powered systems in production. You will architect solutions that support multiple teams and systems, lead complex incident investigations, and drive improvements in reliability, observability, and resilience. You’ll establish best practices for infrastructure automation and platform standards, while influencing cross-team alignment and enabling consistent, scalable engineering outcomes. As a technical leader within the Bakery team, you will mentor engineers, provide architectural guidance, and help shape the team’s technical direction and culture. You are comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, making independent technical decisions, and guiding others through complex challenges while remaining hands-on. This role is well-suited for a senior engineer who is interested in growing into broader technical or people leadership responsibilities over time, while remaining hands-on and deeply technical. We are open to remote candidates for this role

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering
• Proven experience architecting and implementing complex infrastructure systems
• Experience leading cross-team initiatives with organizational impact
• Experience designing infrastructure solutions with ambiguity and open-ended requirements
• Practical experience supporting or enabling AI-driven systems, ML infrastructure, or AI-assisted development workflows
• Experience leading projects or serving as a technical lead for small teams or initiatives
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, and incident response frameworks
• Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure at scale
• Familiarity with LLM-assisted coding tools and models (e.g., Cursor/Copilot, and Claude/GPT) and their secure use in dev/CI workflows.
• Ability to evaluate build vs buy decisions for platform components

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating AI tooling into developer workflows
• Understanding of patterns supporting LLMs, agentic orchestration, or ML model hosting
• Familiarity with governance, compliance, and risk considerations in AI-enabled systems
• Experience leveraging AI to reduce operational toil and improve engineering throughput

Responsibilities

• Architect & Deliver Platform Capabilities
• Enable AI Agentic Development at Scale
• Drive Reliability, Quality & Resilience
• Influence & Cross-Team Leadership
• Mentor & Elevate Engineering Craft

Benefits

• Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed