Senior AI Platform Engineer

Who are we

At Aquablu were disrupting the marketplace with a revolutionary (flavored) water system. Brought to life in 2018 our founders Marnix and Marc promised a healthy but tasty alternative to soft drinks. Today our water is tapped in almost 16 countries. And we continue to make waves by teaming up with industry leaders like Heineken Adyen and Marriott Hotels. Join us in our mission to save one billion plastic bottles by 2030!

That might sound really ambitious but our team is part of an inspiring movement in an industry thats thirsty for change.

- Marc Co-founder of Aquablu

About the Job:

How fast our product builders go from idea to something real in users hands is how our digital products win. You build the engine that makes that speed possible (and safe) by default.

You build the platform underneath everyone who ships: the prototyping environment the deploy pipelines the test and eval harnesses the AI tooling and the runtime our AI agents and automated workflows run on. When a builder has an idea on Monday and its in front of users on Friday your platform is why and why everyone can trust it works. Every hour you save the team compounds across every product we build.

This is a deeply hands-on senior engineering role with wide autonomy. You scope decide and deliver the platform yourself youre the domain expert everyone who ships comes to and the standards you set become how the whole team works. Youre also the quality owner for the digital org: the testing strategy the eval strategy and the bar itself sit with you encoded in infrastructure rather than enforced by meetings. Youre in the code every day building real infrastructure with AI as your primary collaborator. One day youre cutting a deploy pipeline from hours to minutes; the next youre building the eval harness so a builder can trust a feature behaves before it ever reaches a user; the day after youre putting guardrails and monitoring around an agent that runs company workflows unsupervised.

You own the rails; the builders and engineers own what runs on them. Your job is that everything on those rails ships fast behaves predictably and stays affordable.

If building the thing that makes a whole team faster excites you more than shipping any single feature: this is the role for you.

This role reports into our Head of Digital Product and is part of Aquablus Software & Intelligence Engineering team.

Its a full-time position in our office in Amsterdam Houthavens and office presence is 4 days minimum per week.

What Youll Build & Own

• Prototyping & discovery environment: Build the sandbox and scaffolding that lets builders test an idea in hours not weeks.

• CI/CD & deploy infrastructure: Own the path to production fast repeatable and safe enough that shipping doesnt need permission.

• Automated testing & quality gates: Build the test infrastructure that proves code works before it ships AI-generated and AI-maintained test suites regression coverage and quality gates wired into CI so every change gets checked by the pipeline. You define what good enough to ship means and encode it so quality holds at speed without a human standing in the way.

• QA ownership: Youre the quality owner for the digital org. The testing strategy the eval strategy and the bar itself sit with you encoded in infrastructure not enforced by meetings.

• Evaluation infrastructure: Make reliability measurable on systems where the same input can behave differently each run. Ship this as automated eval suites and guardrails builders can trust before a feature reaches users.

• Agent & workflow infrastructure: Own the runtime our AI agents and automated workflows run on orchestration permissions versioning cost and monitoring. Agents that do real work are production software; you make them behave like it.

• AI tooling & enablement: Build the rails that let every builder use AI well and keep raising the bar as the tools change.

• Observability & reliability: Give builders the signal to know whats working in production without going looking for it for products and for agents alike.

• Tooling strategy: Evaluate adopt and roll out new tools across the team without chaos. You anticipate what the team needs before it becomes a bottleneck.

  What You Bring

• Real hands-on engineering experience. Youve built and shipped production systems yourself. This is a builders role not an architect-on-paper or manager role you live in the code.

• Youve operated at senior level before: owning a system or platform end to end making the calls in ambiguous or high-stakes situations and being the person others came to for judgment not just execution.

• Youve built or operated agentic systems in production: LLM workflows agent orchestration or automation that runs unsupervised and you know what it takes to keep them reliable safe and affordable.

• AI-native coding is how you work not a skill youre adding. You build with AI agents every day you have a sharp setup and you push the boundary of what that lets you ship. If your last six months of work doesnt look meaningfully different because of AI this isnt your role.

• Platform instinct: background in platform infrastructure developer experience or ML/AI tooling and a track record of building things other engineers actually adopted.

• A multiplier mindset youd rather unblock the team than be the bottleneck the team waits on.

• Youve built test and quality automation that runs without you in the loop. You get the pipeline and AI agents to generate run and maintain the checks and you have the judgment to set the coverage and quality bar that keeps speed safe.

• Experience building eval or reliability tooling for AI/LLM systems.

• You think in eval suites guardrails and pipelines not gatekeeping and review queues.

• You learn fast and ship under uncertainty: youve adopted tools in the last six months that didnt exist a year ago.

• We dont care what your last title was. We care what youve made and what youve made other people able to do.

Why Aquablu

You will be part of a young fun and ambitious team which aims to change the way people consume water!

A salary between 76-100k yearly based on experience (incl. 8% holiday allowance)

26 paid holiday days

Equity through our Aquablu for All plan everyone shares in what were building

Beautiful and bright office in Amsterdam (Houthavens).

Healthy (heavily discounted) lunches

Urban Sports Club membership

Equity through our Aquablu for All plan everyone shares in what were building

Travel compensation >10km

Quarterly team events at our HQ in Amsterdam (Houthavens)

A pension plan by Zwitserleven.

Endless amount of our very own flavoured water !

Curious about our story & culture Check our documentaries on Youtube!