First American · 4 months ago
Principal Platform Engineer – Applied AI (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$167K/yr - $222K/yr
7+ years expFirst American is a company that values its people and has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. They are seeking a Principal Applied-AI Platform Engineer to lead a team in building high-quality AI-powered solutions that enhance their platform engineering capabilities and improve operational excellence.
Financial ServicesInsuranceProperty InsuranceReal EstateReal Estate Investment
Responsibilities
Drive enterprise-wide technical decisions and deliver organizational transformation through AI-empowerment. Mentor and develop talent for a team of senior engineers, providing technical leadership
Design and build AI-enhanced capabilities for platform engineering workflows including intelligent monitoring, automated incident response, and predictive capacity planning. Establish architecture patterns and best practices for integrating AI into platform services, ensuring solutions are maintainable, observable, and fault-tolerant
Ship AI solutions that measurably improve operational metrics including MTTR reduction, toil automation, incident prevention, and engineering productivity improvement. Own end-to-end delivery from problem identification through production deployment, training, and knowledge-transfer
Work in tandem with our product teams and leaders to identify and implement optimal AI solutions throughout our Platform Engineering and Technical Services groups within the company. Partner with platform engineering, SRE, and IT teams to identify opportunities where AI can transform their operational capabilities and deliver hands-on implementation improvements
Design and lead the development of high-quality, secure, and observable solutions. Create frameworks, libraries, and patterns that accelerate AI adoption across the organization and enable teams to extend solutions independently
Manage the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement. You will participate in all aspects of our software development lifecycle for AI solutions, including planning, defining requirements, developing, and testing those solutions with the team
Qualification
Required
7+ years of platform engineering or DevOps experience with deep expertise in SRE principles, DevOps practices, and operational workflows
Proven track record of enhancing platform and IT operations ad capabilities using AI
Hands-on experience using agentic workflows and MCP server integrations
Expert-level experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerized development (Docker), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
Experience driving engineering best practices for high-functioning Platform Engineering teams through effective use of tools and automation
Passion and expertise for integration with back-end services and APIs using modern architectures and authentication mechanisms (Oauth)
A strong understanding of both software engineering and DevOps principles and modern infrastructure operations
Ability to build robust, high-scale, generic, and reusable solutions
Ability to lead, mentor, and influence Platform and DevOps Engineers to share knowledge and improve quality
Ability to unblock yourself and help accelerate the team in achieving their goals
Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that support continuous delivery and high availability in a cloud-native environment
An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) that inform areas for continuous improvement
Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship, collaborative, and organizational skills
Preferred
AI ecosystem and integration – MCP, agentic clients and frameworks, etc
Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
Experience with parallel execution models and time-boxed delivery methodologies
Track record of building reusable AI patterns and frameworks that accelerate adoption
Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO/paid sick leave
Employee stock purchase plan
Company
First American
First American provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (1)
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2020 (5)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$450M2024-09-23Post Ipo Debt· $450M
2010-06-01IPO
Leadership Team
Kenneth D. DeGiorgio
Chief Executive Officer
Jody Mulkey
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-11-18
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