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Principal AI Engineer (Platform team)

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11 days ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the architecture of data extraction, loading, and pipeline systems supporting more than 500 integrations.
  • Identify architectural bottlenecks and drive performance and reliability improvements across distributed systems.
  • Lead modernization of legacy systems, including LES, DSAS, and ULS, into scalable infrastructure.
  • Design and implement agentic development frameworks for codebase maintenance, continuous improvement, automated acceptance, and rollout.
  • Define and document technical decisions and establish standards for code quality, reliability, performance, validation, and testing.
  • Mentor engineers and promote responsible AI-assisted development practices.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Experience with observability, alerting, and incident response at scale.
  • Solid 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 experience with data integration or ETL infrastructure.

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 impact on platform architecture and freedom to experiment with an AI-native technology stack.

Tech Stack

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BackendData Engineering
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