Handshake - Senior Platform Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel • Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions • Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue • As a Senior Platform Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you'll own the infrastructure layer that makes everything else possible. Enterprise customers don't want their data in shared infrastructure — they want AI applications deployed inside their own environments, on their terms. You'll be the engineer who makes that happen, reliably and at speed. • You'll design and execute deployment patterns across VPC, on-prem, and self-hosted configurations, work directly with customer IT and security teams, and build the tooling that makes each new deployment faster than the last. Without you, nothing ships. • This is a founding-team level role with real technical complexity and direct customer impact — building the platform that Handshake AI Enterprise runs on. • Location: San Francisco, CA | 5 days/week in-office • Location: • Own the infrastructure and deployment layer for AI applications shipped into enterprise customer environments • Design and execute VPC, on-prem, and self-hosted deployment patterns across varying enterprise security requirements • Work directly with customer IT and security teams to navigate compliance, data residency, and access control constraints • Build tooling and automation that makes deployments repeatable and reliable across customers • Collaborate closely with Product and Applied AI engineers on your deployment team • Identify systemic gaps in infrastructure or process and lead initiatives to address them, reducing friction for future deployments • Define the platform playbook for Handshake AI Enterprise as we scale to more customers and more complex environments • Desired Capabilities • 5–6+ years of backend and infrastructure engineering experience • Hands-on experience deploying applications into enterprise environments — VPC deployments, on-prem, and self-hosted configurations • Deep understanding of enterprise security requirements: data segregation, access controls, compliance frameworks • Experience working directly with external customers in a deployment or field engineering context • Strong operational mindset — you care about reliability, observability, and repeatability at scale • Comfort in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the requirements are defined as you go • Extra Credit • Experience at an infrastructure company that offers self-hosted or on-prem deployment options • Familiarity with authentication, secrets management, and zero-trust networking • Experience building internal deployment tooling or platform abstractions that improved team velocity • Background working alongside applied AI or ML systems in production environments • Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported—and thrive at work and in life. • The below benefits are for full-time US employees. • 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company • Ownership: • 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching • Financial Wellness • 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching • Family Support: • 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend • Wellbeing: • 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development • Growth: • 💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office • Remote & Office: • 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days • Time Off: • 🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses • Connection: • Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.