Senior Full-Stack with DevOps experience

Senior Full-Stack Architect (AI Infrastructure & Distributed Systems) Location: Los Angeles, CA (Onsite Preferred) Compensation: $200K+ Base + Equity (Flexible for exceptional talent) I'm partnering with a well-funded, venture-backed AI startup building technology that transforms massive amounts of publicly available, unstructured data into actionable intelligence. Their platform is designed to solve complex, real-world problems for enterprise and mission-driven organizations operating in high-stakes environments. They're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Architect who thrives at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and AI. This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who enjoys designing scalable systems, building alongside a small elite team, and setting the technical direction of a rapidly growing platform. What You'll Do Architect and build highly scalable distributed systems supporting AI-driven products.Own the full software lifecycle across backend services, infrastructure, APIs, and customer-facing applications.Design reliable cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on observability, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.Build and optimize data pipelines and AI agent infrastructure.Partner closely with leadership to influence technical strategy while remaining hands-on in the code.Help establish engineering best practices around scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.What They're Looking For 7+ years building and scaling production software.Strong full-stack engineering background with deep expertise in cloud architecture.Heavy SRE/DevOps experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform (or similar), CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.Strong programming experience with Python plus one or more of Go, Rust, Node.js, or TypeScript.Experience designing systems that support large-scale enterprise users and high-volume data workloads.Comfortable leveraging AI development tools such as Cursor, Claude, or Copilot to accelerate engineering productivity.Exceptional communication skills with the ability to lead technically through influence and execution. Ideal Background: This opportunity is best suited for someone who enjoys ambiguity, takes ownership without being asked, and wants to build products that have meaningful real-world impact. Candidates with an interest in national security, defense, intelligence, or other mission-focused technology environments are especially encouraged to apply. U.S. Citizenship is required. This team maintains an exceptionally high hiring bar and is willing to pay a premium for individuals who combine outstanding technical depth, systems architecture expertise, and leadership experience. Looking for someone who has architected enterprise-scale platforms, enjoys solving difficult engineering problems, and wants significant ownership in an early-stage AI company.