
Principal Engineer - AI Data and Infrastructure, Remote
Aledade
🇺🇸 United States
Remote
Staff / Principal
3 months ago
- AI
- SQL
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- CI/CD
- Java
- Python
- Scala
- C#
- C++
- Databricks
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Health insurance
3 months ago
Reporting to our SVP of Engineering, you will partner with product and engineering leadership to translate technical strategy into business impact. You’ll set the direction for a unified data platform designed for an AI-first future, guiding dozens of engineering teams to bridge the gap between raw data and actionable AI.
This role blends high-level architectural influence with hands-on code contributions, building systems from conception through global scale that are both innovative and production-ready. You will tackle complex problems in data orchestration, low-latency processing, and developer velocity, delivering the foundational capabilities that will accelerate company-wide innovation and define our next chapter.
Primary Duties:
- Architect complex systems and make critical technical decisions.
- Solve challenging technical problems with innovative solutions.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across teams.
- Align technical strategies with business goals through cross-functional collaboration.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and strategic planning.
- Evaluate new technologies and lead innovation initiatives.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required
- 10+ years of production-level experience as an engineer building highly scalable systems
- 6+ years of experience acting as a trusted technical decision-maker in a team setting, solving for short-term and long-term business value
- 4+ years of experience working with SQL or other database querying languages on large multi-table data sets
- Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems at scale
- Experience with cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience building continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines
- Strong familiarity with server-side web technologies (eg: Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go)
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities:
- 10+ years of production-level experience as an engineer building highly scalable and reliable infrastructure
- Strong background in architecting or implementing AI-driven features - with the ability to translate AI capabilities into scalable and performant products
- Proven track record in end-to-end architecture and delivery - guiding large teams (50+ engineers) across multiple product areas from initial conception through maturity.
- Ability to lead and mentor senior engineering talent, shaping architecture decisions and technical direction across multiple teams
- Demonstrated success evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to drive company-wide technical strategies
- Experience working with data ingestion systems and optimizing performance for handling large-scale data processing and analysis
- Deep hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), event streaming (Kafka), data processing (Databricks and Kafka), and large-scale database systems
- Familiarity with  database replication, sharding and other techniques for scalability and high availability of databases
- Experience engineering systems for scalability, high availability, and security — with a focus on sensitive or regulated data
- Experience building observability platforms, performance monitoring, and optimization frameworks for large-scale systems and infrastructure.
- Expertise in containerization/orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with health-tech systems (like Electronic Health Records, Clinical data, etc.) is desired
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.
Principal Engineer - AI Data and Infrastructure, Remote · Aledade