IFS · 5 months ago
Staff Platform Engineer – Agentic AI Systems, IFS The Loops
San Francisco, CA, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expIFS is a company focused on delivering AI-powered operations through its enterprise-grade AI Agent platform, TheLoops. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and implement scalable, distributed platform components that orchestrate data flows and manage agentic workloads in real-time systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Asset ManagementEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Enterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable, distributed platform components with technologies like Kafka, Akka (Typed), gRPC
Architect and optimize data pipelines capable of handling billions of messages/events per day with low latency and high reliability
Lead efforts in agentic scaling – dynamically spawning, routing, and managing autonomous agents (services/functions) in response to workload or demand
Build resilient systems that self-heal, auto-scale, and degrade gracefully under pressure
Define and implement metrics, tracing, and observability for end-to-end system behavior and performance
Collaborate closely with infrastructure, SRE, and product teams to ensure platform scalability aligns with growth and reliability goals
Drive root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks and propose long-term architectural improvements
Participate in on-call rotations, architecture reviews, and deep technical design sessions
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience building distributed systems in a high-throughput production environment
Deep expertise with Kafka (topics, partitions, consumers, tuning, schema registry, stream processing)
Strong experience with Akka or other actor-based concurrency models; familiarity with Akka Cluster, Sharding, Persistence, or Typed API
Solid programming skills in Java
Understanding of agentic workloads and dynamic system orchestration (e.g., microservices that represent intelligent agents)
Experience designing scalable APIs, message protocols (e.g., Protobuf, Avro), and event-driven architectures
Familiarity with cloud-native environments (e.g., Kubernetes, service mesh, container orchestration)
Preferred
Experience with serverless compute models or function-as-a-service scaling paradigms
Contributions to open-source projects in the distributed systems ecosystem
Experience with AI or ML-driven orchestration or agentic frameworks
Familiarity with operational tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kafka monitoring tools, etc
Benefits
Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
Medical, dental, & vision insurance
401K with Company contribution
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and disability benefits
Tuition assistance
Community involvement and volunteering events
Company
IFS
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software solutions such as ERP, EAM, Service Management and Industrial AI It is a sub-organization of IFS.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.42BKey Investors
HgTA Associates
2025-04-09Secondary Market
2022-03-30Secondary Market
2020-07-14Secondary Market· $3.42B
Leadership Team
Mark Moffat
Chief Executive Officer
Matthias Heiden
Chief Financial Officer
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