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About the role
Reflection's Platform Foundations team builds and operates the foundational layer every engineering team depends on — cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure, networking primitives, security guardrails, and developer tooling. The team defines the opinionated golden paths that make the safe, scalable, cost-predictable path also the easiest one to follow, so engineers can ship quickly without reinventing the foundation each time.
What they're looking for
- Experience building, mentoring, and growing infrastructure or platform teams while staying technically hands-on. (Comfortable growing into leading a team of ~10 quickly if you haven't managed at that scale before.)
- Deep infrastructure or platform engineering experience, with real ownership of production-grade systems at scale
- Strong coding ability and the credibility to earn the technical trust of a strong team
- Deep expertise in at least one of: cloud platforms, network engineering, security architecture, or developer tooling — with working knowledge across the others, and the ability to learn the rest
- Fluency with the modern infra toolkit: Terraform/Pulumi, Kubernetes, CI/CD and build systems (e.g. Bazel), and observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry)
- Experience managing cloud and infrastructure vendors, including negotiating and operating important deals
More about this role
Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.
Reflection's Platform Foundations team builds and operates the foundational layer every engineering team depends on — cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure, networking primitives, security guardrails, and developer tooling. The team defines the opinionated golden paths that make the safe, scalable, cost-predictable path also the easiest one to follow, so engineers can ship quickly without reinventing the foundation each time.
As Platform Foundations Lead, you'll provide front-line leadership of the team that builds this layer. You'll build, mentor, and grow a team of infrastructure engineers, guide the technical and architectural decisions across cloud, networking, security, and developer infrastructure, and work closely with every engineering team that builds on top of you. You'll stay close enough to the stack to make targeted contributions as an individual contributor and to maintain a deep understanding of the...
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