aledade - Staff Software Engineer- AI Platform

• BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required. • 8+ years of production-level experience as an engineer building highly scalable systems. • 4+ 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 KSAs: • AI Infrastructure & Model Platform: • Experience building or operating production platform infrastructure, distributed systems, developer platforms, or other high-availability shared services. • Experience with LLM infrastructure, model gateways, foundation model APIs, or managed AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, or similar technologies. • Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and technologies such as Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure as a code. • Experience designing observability and operational practices for production systems, including metrics, distributed tracing, logging, alerting, SLOs, dashboards and failure handling. • Experience designing APIs and self-service platform capabilities used by other engineering teams. • Experience with Identity, access control, secrets management, security and governance for shared infrastructure. • Experience with cost management, usage attribution, quotas, budgets, or capacity management for shared platforms. • Experience operating systems that handle sensitive or regulated data. • Ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs across reliability, performance, security, cost, scalability and developer experience. • Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.