Staff Engineer: Data and AI

Staff Engineer: Data and AI
Bengaluru (Electronic City) | Full-time | 8-10 years

Altimetrik is hiring a Staff Engineer, Data and AI, to set the technical standard for data pipeline and AI platform engineering, driving architecture decisions and delivering complex platform capabilities.

What you’ll do

• Design and deliver complex data pipelines across Redshift, MSK/RedPanda, DBT and S3
• Define engineering standards and best practices for the Data and AI platform team
• Lead technical design for AI/ML infrastructure, including AWS Bedrock integrations and Claude-based workflows
• Drive ingestion standardisation and canonical ID resolution as a platform-wide initiative
• Work with ML Engineers on data infrastructure for model training and inference pipelines
• Implement data quality controls and observability (Coralogix, Grafana), and contribute to PCI DSS-compliant data handling (PAN masking, PII controls, TonicAI)
• Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers within the team

What we’re looking for

• 8-10 years in data engineering or AI platform engineering
• Expert-level experience with AWS data services: EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3 and EC2
• Strong hands-on experience with Redshift and medallion (Bronze-Silver-Gold) architecture
• Proficiency with DBT for data transformation at scale
• Experience with SQL Server CDC-based ingestion pipelines
• Familiarity with event streaming platforms: Confluent, RedPanda or Kafka
• Experience building ML-ready data pipelines and feature engineering infrastructure
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock and GenAI pipeline patterns
• Strong understanding of PCI DSS data handling requirements
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and mentor engineers

Work Location: In person