Intangible

Lead patching and endpoint management teams using automation and scripting to maintain security and operational efficiency. | Experience managing large-scale patching and endpoint management using Kaseya and scripting automation, with leadership in technical escalation and policy definition. | About Intangible Intangible is camera-native AI for creative direction, giving professional teams camera-centric control over generative AI so they can see the whole story before they build it. We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, artists and designers that have built and shipped multiple end-to-end products at companies like Apple, Unity, Pixar, ILM and Electronic Arts. Intangible is seed funded by a16z Speedrun, Crosslink Capital and prominent angels. We are a design-obsessed, engineering-heavy team shipping a groundbreaking product, and we’re looking for someone who shares our attention to detail and love of craft. About the Role We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure. You’ll build and maintain the data and services powering our creative tools, ensuring speed, reliability, and scale. Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments, including orchestration of agentic APIs and data flows through these environments. Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Intangible's platform layer Design and evolve infrastructure for our AI-assisted, collaborative tools at scale Lead the implementation of backend services and APIs with a focus on security, modularity, and performance Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and system health tooling Ensure our systems meet high availability targets ("four nines") while remaining flexible for rapid iteration Integrate 3rd-party services including AI pipelines, payments, analytics, and user auth Collaborate across product, design, and ML to translate creative tooling needs into backend capabilities Key Competencies Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) Practical expertise with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools Deep understanding of distributed systems, WebSockets, WebTransport, and realtime sync Optimizing schema and large data sets for use by LLMs Architecting and deploying multi-tenant systems with strong role, permission, and tenant isolation Managing schema migrations and cross-environment data synchronization safely Comfort working in a fast-moving, creative environment with a highly interdisciplinary team Bonus Qualities Expertise in GCP and/or PostgreSQL Experience with 3D tools or creative platforms Passion for building creative tools and empowering artists Experience using AI tools to improve engineering workflows (e.g., code generation, debugging, testing, documentation), or strong openness to adopting them. Benefits We are a remote-first, distributed company with a concentration in the SF/Bay Area. Health insurance for you and your dependants 401(k) plan with employer contribution Flexible PTO