stninc - Autonomous Platform (Horizon AI)

Remote1w ago

Remote WW Platform Engineer Python Java Observable Kubernetes

Requirements

• A long record of shipping and hardening complex distributed systems as a hands-on engineer at senior level • Real experience taking a fast-built system to production dependability: idempotency, circuit breaking, backpressure, and degradation that is actually observable • Range across Python and Java, and comfort in backend services, data infrastructure, and deployment in the same week • Judgment about orchestration and scaling grounded in operating systems rather than reading about them - The instinct to reduce a novel problem to working code quickly • Nice to have: Kubernetes at production scale, event streaming, CI at scale

Responsibilities

• Fix dispatch reliability first: circuit breakers, correct retry semantics, health-aware routing, and error handling that surfaces failures • Add the caching layer, then the event streaming backbone • Own the orchestration decision, whether to stay as-is, move to Kubernetes, or something between, and then execute it • Introduce infrastructure-as-code and real deployment practice - Refactor toward per-session isolation so concurrent agent runs are safe • Own cross-cutting concerns: service scaffolding standards, testing strategy, CI, and observability of our own platform • Rotate through Systems and SRE embeds