AI Systems Engineer - Data & State Management - Senior

11 days ago

Atlanta, GA, USASenior

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$107k - $201k/yr

Responsibilities

Own relational, durable workflow, caching, vector, graph, object, and block-storage systems across environments and tenants.
Own event streaming and asynchronous messaging using Kafka, NATS JetStream, Debezium, Flink, and event-contract technologies.
Design and operate replication, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, and cross-environment data movement according to RPO/RTO requirements.
Build and operate streaming and change-data-capture pipelines with schema governance and evolution.
Ensure multi-tenant isolation, portability, performance, and consistent data semantics across managed cloud and self-hosted environments.
Provide data, lineage, governance, observability, and AI-knowledge infrastructure for downstream teams.
Define data ownership boundaries and storage and streaming contracts with platform, trust, runtime, and delivery teams.
Reduce operational toil through automation and infrastructure-as-code for data systems.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
8+ years of experience operating production data infrastructure, streaming systems, or database platforms at scale.
Hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL and Redis/Valkey, including high availability, replication, and backup/recovery.
Production experience with vector or graph databases such as Qdrant, Milvus, PGVector, and Neo4j in AI/ML contexts.
Deep experience with Apache Kafka/Strimzi, NATS, Debezium, Apache Flink, CloudEvents, and schema registries.
Experience running stateful systems on Kubernetes with operators, persistent volumes, and object/block storage such as MinIO and OpenEBS.
Experience with AI/ML data patterns including embeddings, retrieval, and feature/state stores for agentic workloads.
Preferred experience with DBOS, Temporal, OpenLineage, Marquez, MirrorMaker, CloudNativePG PITR, cross-environment replication, disaster recovery, and regulated delivery environments.
Understanding of compliance, security, data-at-rest and data-in-transit protection, multi-tenant isolation, and per-tenant performance management.

Base salary is $106,900–$176,500 across US geographic locations and $128,400–$200,600 in New York City Metro Area, Washington State, and California excluding Sacramento.
Medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and paid time off are provided.
The role follows a team-led, leader-enabled hybrid model, with most external client-serving employees expected to work in person 40–60% of the time during an engagement, project, or year.
Benefits include flexible vacation, EY paid holidays, winter and summer breaks, personal and family care leave, and other leaves of absence.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

10,000+ employees