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interface.ai · 15 hours ago

Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer

San Francisco / Palo Alto (In-Office)

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$170K/yr - $200K/yr

6+ years exp

Interface.ai is a rapidly growing AI company in fintech, focused on creating a universal banking assistant for U.S. consumers. The Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer will design and build the core AI platform infrastructure, ensuring reliability and efficiency for product teams while managing complex workloads and developer platforms.

Enterprise SoftwareFinTech

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain core platform services and internal APIs for scalable, multi-tenant workloads

Build internal developer platforms (IDP) that streamline CI/CD, environment provisioning, and observability across teams

Architect for fault tolerance, auto-scaling, and zero-downtime deployments for distributed microservices and AI pipelines

Own and extend Terraform/Crossplane configurations to standardize provisioning across environments

Implement deep observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) for tracing, metrics, and proactive alerting

Manage Kubernetes, Helm, and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) to ensure secure and efficient service communication

Build and evolve backend services in Go/Node.js/Python for internal orchestration, configuration, and workload routing

Collaborate with AI teams to optimize LLM workflows, caching strategies, and retrieval pipelines for low-latency inference

Write high-quality scripts/tools in Python/Go to automate operational tasks, resilience testing, and rollout management

Work with Product, DevOps, and Security to ensure every platform capability meets performance, compliance, and reliability goals

Qualification

KubernetesTerraformAWS cloud architectureBackend languagesObservability toolsCI/CD pipeline designDistributed systemsMicroservices communicationDebugging skillsCollaboration skills

Required

6–9 years of engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps-heavy roles

Strong proficiency in at least two backend languages (Go, Node.js, or Python)

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and declarative infrastructure management

Deep understanding of distributed systems, container orchestration, and microservice communication

Proficiency in AWS cloud architecture (EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC)

Proven experience with observability and tracing systems (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)

Experience with CI/CD pipeline design (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows)

Exposure to AI/ML or data-intensive systems, including model serving, vector databases, or RAG pipelines

Knowledge of networking, service mesh, and security controls in production-grade environments

Strong debugging and performance tuning skills; ability to reason about failure modes and resilience

Excellent collaboration skills — able to partner with developers, product managers, and AI researchers effectively

Benefits

100% paid health, dental & vision care

401(k) match & financial wellness perks

Discretionary PTO + paid parental leave

Mental health, wellness & family benefits

Company

interface.ai

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interface.ai is an award-winning out-of-the-box Intelligent Virtual Assistant(IVA) for Banks & Credit Unions.

Founded in 2019

San Francisco, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://interface.ai

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