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Principal AI Engineer (Platform team)

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11 days ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve scalable data extraction, loading, and pipeline architecture serving more than 500 integrations.
  • Identify architectural bottlenecks and drive performance, reliability, security, and maintainability improvements.
  • Modernize legacy systems including LES, DSAS, and ULS into scalable AI-native infrastructure.
  • Design and implement agentic development frameworks for codebase maintenance, continuous improvement, automated acceptance, and rollout.
  • Define and document technical decisions and set standards for code quality, reliability, and performance.
  • Mentor engineers on AI-assisted development practices and help them increase delivery speed without introducing hidden risk.
  • Collaborate with product and AI teams on agentic framework rollout and new integration capabilities.

Requirements

  • 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 shipping with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and agentic coding, including 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.
  • Strong SQL and query-optimization experience across PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.
  • Ability to work within the EST timezone and fluency in English.
  • Preferred qualifications include defining and driving adoption of engineering standards, migrating legacy pipeline systems, and working with data integration or ETL infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment.
  • 20 PTO days plus US holidays.
  • Stock options.
  • Professional development reimbursement.
  • Optional relocation assistance to Latin America after the trial period.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps
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