[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.ResponsibilitiesEvolve 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 scaleMaintain 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 checksCo-manage cloud infrastructure — AWS ECS/Fargate, ALB, ECR, CloudFront, and Terraform IaCStrengthen authentication and authorization — enterprise SSO, OAuth integrations, and shared auth providers across web and mobile appsBuild and operate the feature flag services to enable safe deployment of new capabilitiesDrive design system adoptionOwn database tooling and migrations across a mix of technologiesReduce developer-experience friction, including local dev setup, environment configuration, and AI toolingSkillsAn 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 softwareExperience implementing agentic AI frameworks for software development beyond personal coding assistantsHands-on experience with monorepo tooling (Nx, Turborepo, or npm/pnpm/yarn workspaces)Hands-on with AWS (ECS/Fargate, ALB, ECR, IAM) and TerraformComfortable with CI/CD systems and containerized deploymentsWorking knowledge of PostgreSQL and MongoDBStrong, well-formed opinions on code quality, testing, and developer productivityExperience building or operating ML/LLM/AI infrastructure or agentic systemsExposure to Next.js and/or React Native / ExpoExperience building a design system or a feature flag platformExperience treating an internal platform as a productBenefitsFull benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k) plan)Equity Appreciation PlanFlexible Time Off policySeven (7) company-wide paid holidays + two (2) floating holidaysTwo (2) wellness daysEmployee Assistance ProgramProfessional Development StipendHome Office StipendCompany OverviewExpert Pilot Recruitment Solution Provider It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.pilotbase.com.