Staff AI-Native Platform Engineer

Natera is a company seeking a visionary Staff AI-Native Platform Engineer to lead the evolution of their technical foundation by integrating Generative AI into their development platform.

Introduction

Natera is seeking a visionary Staff AI-Native Platform Engineer to lead the evolution of our technical foundation. This high-impact role involves architecting an AI-native ecosystem that integrates Generative AI into every layer of our Development Platform, reimagining the developer experience (DevEx) with AI-first engineering principles.

Responsibilities

Architect AI-Integrated Infrastructure

• AI-First Development Platform: Design and build unified interfaces where AI agents manage complex tasks like environment provisioning, automated PR reviews, and self-documenting codebases.
• Intelligent Orchestration: Embed AI-driven intelligence into CI/CD pipelines and Observability stacks for predictive scaling, automated incident triage, and self-healing systems.
• Autonomous FinOps: Evolve AI-assisted FinOps workflows to automate cost attribution, anomaly detection, and optimization recommendations across AWS and other cloud environments.
• Governance & Guardrails: Implement AI-driven governance to ensure architectural standards and security policies are met without slowing developer velocity.

Elevate Developer Experience (DevEx)

• Agentic Tooling: Develop production-grade internal tools using agentic reasoning to solve operational challenges for product teams.
• Internal Developer Portal (IDP): Integrate natural language interfaces into our IDP, allowing developers to interact with the platform through conversational AI.
• Actionable Insights: Transform raw telemetry into insights using advanced data modeling and AI-driven visualization.

Lead AI Mentorship & Evangelism

• Strategic Advisory: Partner with senior leadership to model technical and operational trade-offs of various AI architectural decisions.
• Team Upskilling: Mentor engineers on advanced AI tooling, prompt engineering for infrastructure, and the deployment of agentic systems.
• Community Building: Stay at the forefront of the GenAI landscape, sharing insights and driving the adoption of emerging tools and patterns.

Requirements

• Platform Expertise: 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering (AWS preferred), with deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform/CloudFormation, and modern CI/CD patterns.
• AI/ML Applied Logic: Expert-level experience applying AI techniques (summarization, RAG, agentic reasoning) to real-world operational workflows. You understand how to make LLMs "useful" in a production environment.
• Advanced Programming: Expert Python skills and experience with AWS SDKs, comfortable building complex integrations and custom CLI/API tools.
• The "Staff" Mindset: Proven history of leading large-scale, cross-functional projects, navigating ambiguity, building consensus, and delivering measurable business impact.
• Creative Evangelism: Ability to present complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, inspiring teams towards AI-native workflows.
• Product Thinking: Experience building Internal Developer Portals (IDP) with a focus on "Platform as a Product" and user-centric design.

Nice to Have

• Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or other AI orchestration frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source platforms or AI projects.
• Experience with vector databases and fine-tuning models for domain-specific tasks.

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