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This is a hands-on technical leadership role with the opportunity to establish a new team and shape its direction, defining the golden path for how services are built and operated at Together.\nThis role will support mission-critical Product and Platform teams by providing a stable, scalable service infrastructure foundation for building and operating customer-facing and internal services. The focus is on making that foundation reliable, repeatable, and easy for teams to adopt.\nYou'll own and evolve crucial shared infrastructure, roll out new infrastructure patterns and platform capabilities to service teams, and coordinate with other infrastructure teams to ensure services are built on company-wide foundations.\nIn your first year, you might:\nShip a new golden-path service template (scaffolding, Helm chart, CI/CD, and GitOps) and move the first set of services onto it.\nImplement zero-trust policies on our production clusters.\nCollaborate with DevProd and SREs on the migration to Kargo.\nHire and grow the initial Platform Infrastructure team.\nResponsibilities\nSet the technical direction for service infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, CDN and edge networking, and related operational patterns.\nDesign and build reusable infrastructure primitives, such as Helm charts and Terraform modules.\nBuild self-service platform capabilities, operational runbooks, and AI-assisted tooling that accelerate service development and operations.\nPartner closely with service teams to modernize existing services and adopt stronger infrastructure patterns.\nWork with Infrastructure, Networking, and Security teams to translate company-wide platform standards into practical service-level implementations.\nLead cross-company infrastructure initiatives such as Terraform CI/CD, Kubernetes networking, zero-trust service communication, policy-as-code, and cross-DC and cross-provider networking.\nRequirements\n7+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, service infrastructure, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or a related field.\nDeep production experience with Kubernetes and AWS, including operating shared infrastructure for deployment, networking, identity, scaling, or service reliability. Examples include EKS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, and ECR.\nStrong experience with Terraform and infrastructure delivery automation.\nWorking knowledge of service and edge networking, including DNS, TLS, CDNs, load balancing, and ingress and egress.\nProficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript, or another systems or infrastructure-oriented programming language.\nExperience building reusable infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams and helping those teams adopt it in production.\nProven ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, with strong written technical communication and a track record of driving adoption across teams you don't manage.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with GitHub Actions, GitOps workflows, and service scaffolding.\nExperience with Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, or Kargo.\nExperience designing or operating CDNs, WAFs, edge infrastructure, or Layer 4 networking\nExperience with service meshes, zero-trust networking, policy-as-code, multi-region or hybrid infrastructure, or supply-chain security.\nExperience operating distributed streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming) as shared platform services for data teams.\nExperience building or applying AI-assisted tooling to improve service development or operations.\nAbout Together AI\nTogether AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.\nCompensation\nWe offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $240,000 - $280,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. 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