Avantos AI - Senior Data and Platform Engineer

New York City, NY, United States - Hybrid+ Equity1w ago

In Office Senior NA Fintech Cloud Computing Platform Engineer Senior Data Engineer AWS Terraform SQL Vector

Requirements

• 7+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure • data engineering, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure • A track record of shipping and owning production systems. • shipping and owning production systems • Strong systems thinking (not just pipelines — platform mindset) • platform mindset • Backend system design and API design • Data modeling and relational databases • Data modeling • relational • Performance, reliability, and failure modes • Proficiency in Golang, SQL, Terraform, AWS • Golang, SQL, Terraform, AWS • Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment • fast-moving startup environment • Bonus • Bonus • LLMs / RAG, vector search, fintech or regulated systems

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core backend systems and integrations that power the product. • core backend systems • integrations • Design and build our data platform (orchestration, pipelines, developer workflows) • data platform • Create scalable systems for data ingestion, transformation, and access • data ingestion, transformation, and access • Design data models and APIs that won’t collapse under growth. • data models and APIs • Make sane decisions about schemas, indexes, migrations, and performance. • Own infrastructure for data + AI workloads (containers, orchestration, cloud services) • infrastructure for data + AI workloads • Enable self-serve data workflows for engineering and product teams • self-serve data workflows • Improve observability, reliability, and performance across the data stack • observability, reliability, and performance • Support AI/ML systems (embeddings, vector data, model pipelines) • AI/ML systems • Build tooling for document processing, metadata, and normalization • document processing, metadata, and normalization

Benefits

• Build the foundation layer of an AI-native product • foundation layer • High ownership + direct impact • Work where data, platform, and AI converge • data, platform, and AI converge • The Fit • The Fit • You’re someone who doesn’t just move data — you build the systems that make data usable at scale. • build the systems that make data usable at scale