Platform Engineering Leader

Our Platform Engineering Leader will lead the strategic vision and execution of Bricklayer AI’s cloud-native platform infrastructure, ensuring our autonomous SOC platform scales efficiently while maintaining enterprise‑grade security and compliance standards. This hands‑on leadership role requires 60% individual contribution and 40% team leadership, reporting directly to the CTO.

Bricklayer AI is the first multi-agent LLM‑based AI solution that brings autonomous AI specialists and human experts into a single collaborative and effective security team. Our automated AI Security Analyst, Threat Intelligence Analyst, and Incident Responder autonomously handle complex incidents, with minimal human oversight. They learn continuously, collaborate seamlessly, and enable human teams to build a stronger defense.

Our Platform Engineering Leader will lead the strategic vision and execution of Bricklayer AI’s cloud‑native platform infrastructure, ensuring our autonomous SOC platform scales efficiently while maintaining enterprise‑grade security and compliance standards. This hands‑on leadership role requires 60% individual contribution and 40% team leadership, reporting directly to the CTO. The ideal candidate will be deeply involved in architectural decisions and implementation while scaling the platform engineering team as we grow.

You’ll write code, review pull requests, and make critical technical decisions while building and mentoring a world‑class platform engineering organization.

Location
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This position is based in Atlanta, GA and requires full‑time in‑office work at our Atlanta R&D Center

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and vision across AWS and Azure multi‑cloud environments
• Hands‑on Team Scaling: Start by directly contributing to infrastructure development while simultaneously building and mentoring a platform engineering team as the company grows
• Infrastructure Architecture: Design and oversee implementation of scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient cloud infrastructure supporting AI workloads and multi‑tenant SaaS architecture
• Developer
  
  Experience:
  
  Establish and maintain internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and self‑service capabilities that accelerate engineering velocity
• Security & Compliance: Lead implementation and maintenance of SOC2 Type II controls, security frameworks, and compliance automation across the platform
• Cost Optimization: Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and establish Fin Ops practices to maximize ROI on infrastructure investments
• Observability & Reliability: Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and SRE practices to ensure uptime and optimal performance
• AI/ML Infrastructure: Architect and maintain specialized infrastructure for LLM deployment, vector databases, and high‑throughput AI agent orchestration
• Cross‑functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to align platform capabilities with business objectives
• Technology Evolution: Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption of cutting‑edge platform engineering tools and practices

• 8+ years of platform engineering, Dev Ops, or infrastructure engineering experience with 3+ years in hands‑on leadership roles managing growing teams
• Experience scaling engineering teams from startup phase to mature organizations
• Proven ability to balance individual contribution (60%+) with team leadership and mentoring responsibilities
• Expert‑level knowledge of AWS services with deep experience in Azure cloud services
• Proven track record personally implementing and scaling infrastructure while building engineering teams
• Advanced expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Pulumi) with hands‑on implementation experience
• Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins) and Git Ops methodologies
• Deep understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements (SOC2, ISO 27001), and vulnerability management
• Experience architecting multi‑tenant SaaS platforms with enterprise‑grade security and performance
• Strong background in…