Nearmap is unique. An Australian global technology company with incredible people; a market-leader with energy and spirit. Nearmap was named as one of the world’s 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2020 by Fast Company magazine – and we’re growing. Backed by Space Capital.
About the role
As Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll own the cloud foundation that Nearmap AI runs on. You’ll lead a team of up to three engineers, set the technical direction for the infrastructure layer beneath our machine learning platform, and stay hands-on in the systems you design. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
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As Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll own the cloud foundation that Nearmap AI runs on. You’ll lead a team of up to three engineers, set the technical direction for the infrastructure layer beneath our machine learning platform, and stay hands-on in the systems you design.
This is a leadership role for a seasoned engineer who thinks in systems. Nearmap captures and processes aerial imagery at a scale that breaks most infrastructure: thousands of EKS nodes running batch inference, GPU fleets spanning two clouds, and production model endpoints behind customer products. Someone has to make that substrate reliable, secure, and affordable. That’s you.
Reporting to the Director, AI Systems Engineering, you work side by side with the Principal AI Platform Engineer. They build the machine learning platform: workflow orchestration, distributed training, serving, and LLMOps. You build what it stands on: the Kubernetes fleet across AWS and GCP, GPU-capable compute, networking, identity, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and the observability and security foundations every AICV service depends on.
To be clear about the boundary: you own the infrastructure platform, not the machine...
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