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Its platform combines AI, geospatial data, regulatory context, and deep domain expertise to help solve one of the world’s most important built-environment challenges.\nThe team is early, highly technical, and interdisciplinary, bringing together software engineers, AI specialists, scientists, and domain experts to build a new category-defining platform from the ground up.\nThe Opportunity\nThis is a foundational platform engineering role with broad ownership across cloud infrastructure, security, compliance, observability, DevOps, and data orchestration. The company has strong engineering talent already in place, but needs a dedicated platform leader to set the foundations that allow the team to move faster, safer, and with greater customer trust.\nYou will not be joining as the fifth person on a mature infrastructure team. You will be the person helping define what good looks like from day one.\nThe Role\nYou will own and evolve the company’s GCP cloud environment, infrastructure as code, deployment safety, observability, and security foundations. 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