Sr. Platform Engineer

Why us

• Join a pre‑IPO startup with capital, traction and runway ($240M funded | 60X revenue growth in 5 years | $2T market size).
• Work closely with brilliant leaders and teammates from companies like McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Nvidia, Lemonade, GEICO, Amazon, etc.
• Disrupt a massive market and take us to a $10B business in the next few years.
• Be immersed in a talent‑dense environment and greatly accelerate your career growth.

Jerry.ai is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to help us build out our infrastructure for scale. We have achieved product‑market fit and are in a rapid scaling phase, making this a critical moment for our team. We need a skilled problem‑solver capable of building, maintaining and optimizing the core systems that power our business.

In this role, you will be the key driver of automation, scalability and reliability across our entire infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This is a hands‑on position where you will be responsible for more than just keeping the lights on. You will be a strategic partner, designing and implementing solutions that enable our engineering teams to move faster and deliver high‑quality products to our customers.

• Develop systems and components to improve operational simplicity and reliability of Jerry’s product systems—e.g., monitoring system, deployment automation, and diagnosis tools.
• Support Jerry’s infrastructure, including managing our cloud accounts end‑to‑end, ensuring robustness and security.
• Develop systems and tools to manage security access and capacity planning of cloud resources.
• Work with various product teams to guide systems architecture and offer suggestions for reliability and optimization of production systems.
• Be the shepherd coordinating Jerry’s production incident handling across teams.

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience working with Amazon AWS services and tools, such as ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Elastic Cache, ELB, ECR, CDK, etc.
• Meticulous attention to detail to ensure systems are always up.
• Solid coding skills, preferably in Python or Golang; familiarity with Node.js and Type Script; strong system analysis and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent teammate with strong communication, collaboration and technical writing skills.
• Highly motivated and thrive in dynamic and fast‑paced environments with a real passion for ensuring scalable and highly available systems in the cloud.

While we appreciate your interest and application, only applicants under consideration will be contacted.

Jerry.ai is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Jerry.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting.

Location:

Chicago, IL. Salary: $ – $.