Senior Platform Engineer Remote Cloud Infrastructure Expert
Listing checked September 4, 2026 · pay as published by Micro1
Overview
A remote contractor role focused on cloud platform engineering to support next-gen AI training. You’ll shape how models learn and perform by providing real-world, production-grade input across distributed systems, networking, IAM, storage, and observability. Your background in cloud infrastructure and platform ownership stands in for AI-specific experience, guiding the creation of realistic reinforcement learning environments.
What You'll Do5
- 1Design and implement cloud tasks that test distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
- 2Create containerized, reproducible environments with solid reference solutions and clearly defective variants for testing.
- 3Set measurable requirements for infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
- 4Build deterministic tests for integration, load, security, failure injection, deployment, and recovery scenarios.
- 5Debug environments, document decisions, and review work produced by other platform engineers.
Requirements5
- 1Senior-level experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE with direct ownership of a production platform.
- 2Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and handling partial failures.
- 3Hands-on experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
- 4Familiarity with observability, SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
- 5Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a programming language relevant to the stack.
Who Should Apply
The ideal candidate brings senior cloud and platform engineering know-how with proven ownership of production systems. They should excel at building realistic, testable cloud scenarios and have practical skills across IAM, networking, and observability. This role may not be a fit for those without hands-on production experience or who lack comfort with distributed architectures. Common fit blockers include limited experience with containerized environments or incomplete familiarity with disaster recovery and rolling deployments.
Salary Insight
Compensation is task-based and paid per completed project that meets specifications; the amount varies with experience and workflow. A minimum number of tasks must be submitted weekly, and pay is determined after task approval.
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