# Staff / Principal Platform Engineer - USA at Inworld

- Company: Inworld
- What the company does: Realtime TTS and STT models, LLM serving, and the inference behind both, all through modular APIs. Customers cut voice and AI costs 40% to 95% after moving to Inworld. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and CRV.
- Company website: https://inworld.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Mountain View, California, USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $280K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inworld-ai/b233d8a9-6f89-4758-92b7-587876862ddd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inworld-staff-principal-platform-engineer-usa/

## About the role

Join our team as a Staff / Principal Platform Engineer and take end-to-end ownership of building, securing, and scaling our AI products. You'll be the driving force behind our cloud infrastructure, partnering with engineers across the organization to deploy and evolve services across major cloud providers using Terraform, ArgoCD, and other tooling. In this high-impact role, you'll identify what needs to be done and move it forward, directly shaping how we operate and innovate.

## What they're looking for

- 8-10 years of experience in software engineering
- 3+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Proficiency in managing Kubernetes clusters and applications, including creating Kustomize manifests/Helm charts for new applications
- Experience in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for both applications and infrastructure deployments (using tools like Terraform/Terragrunt, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Ansible, etc.)
- Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud)
- Proficient in at least one backend programming/scripting languages such as Golang, Python, and Bash

Tags: Platform