Senior AI Platform Engineer (remote)

What you'll do:

• Design and implement APIs and domain services that abstract the complexity of using an LLM and enable rapid feature development from our product teams
• Build scalable AWS infrastructure for LLM interactions, including prompt management, context handling, auditing, and response processing
• Create developer tooling and documentation that makes integration with your services intuitive and easy
• Establish best practices for AI and LLM use at Instructure, considering things like auditability, cost, and performance
• Collaborate with feature teams to understand their needs and solve them with platform capabilities
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and performant APIs
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other developers

What you'll need:

• Prior software engineering experience with API design and distributed system development
• Strong experience building backend services and REST or GraphQL APIs
• Knowledge of API design best practices around security, performance monitoring, rate limiting, and more
• Understanding of LLM integration and usage patterns
• Strong collaboration and written and verbal communication skills;
• Past experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS
• Experience with Node.js or a desire to learn
• Experience with TypeScript or a desire to learn
• Background in developer tooling and API documentation is preferred

Why join us:

• At Instructure, you’ll lay the foundation for the use of AI in education and make a difference in the lives of millions of learners. We invest in our employees’ learning with thoughtful mentorship, hack weeks, internal conferences, and a culture where innovation and ownership thrive.