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Principal AI Engineer (Platform team)

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11 days ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and evolution of extraction, load, and pipeline systems serving more than 500 integrations.
  • Identify architectural bottlenecks and drive performance, reliability, and scalability improvements across distributed systems.
  • Modernize legacy systems, including LES, DSAS, and ULS, into scalable AI-native infrastructure.
  • Design and implement agentic development frameworks for codebase maintenance, continuous improvement, validation, testing, and rollout.
  • Document technical decisions and set standards for code quality, reliability, and performance.
  • Mentor engineers on AI-assisted development practices and help them ship faster while managing risk.
  • Collaborate with product and AI teams on agentic framework rollout and new integration capabilities.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of hands-on backend engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a principal- or architect-level role owning production systems.
  • Experience designing and scaling complex systems rather than only maintaining them.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development, Claude Code, agentic coding, and building agentic frameworks for code maintenance and rollout.
  • Strong distributed systems experience with Kubernetes, workflow orchestration such as Temporal, and message queues such as RabbitMQ.
  • Experience building secure, resilient systems that are difficult to break or breach.
  • Experience with observability, alerting, and incident response at scale.
  • Solid SQL and query optimization experience across PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.
  • Ability to define engineering standards and drive adoption across a team is preferred.
  • Experience migrating legacy pipeline systems is preferred.
  • Background in data integration or ETL infrastructure is preferred.
  • Ability to work within the EST timezone and fluency in English.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment.
  • 20 PTO days and US holidays.
  • Stock options.
  • Professional development reimbursement.
  • Optional relocation assistance to Latin America after the trial period.
  • Direct influence over platform architecture and freedom to experiment with an AI-native technology stack.

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