Role: Backend Engineer – (Python, Rust & AI Services)

Experience: 3+yrs

Work Mode: Remote

Notice period: Only Immediate - 15days

THE PROSPECT

We are building a new service to collect and normalize data catalogs from diverse data sources — including relational databases, data lakes, data warehouses, and streaming systems — and expose them to an AI agent that dynamically constructs and routes queries to the appropriate source. This is a greenfield initiative that requires strong engineering judgment, a systems-thinking mindset, and experience shipping production-grade services.

You will be a core contributor on this project, working from architecture to implementation — designing ingestion pipelines, building the catalog API layer, and collaborating with the AI/ML team to surface the right metadata signals for intelligent query generation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design, build, and operate a highly available data catalog collection service that ingests schema and metadata from heterogeneous data sources (RDBMS, data lakes, streaming platforms, APIs)
- Develop robust data pipelines for catalog extraction, normalization, lineage tracking, and semantic tagging to power AI-driven query routing
- Build and maintain RESTful and/or gRPC APIs that expose catalog data to an AI query agent
- Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes (K8s), including helm chart authoring, autoscaling configuration, and multi-cluster operations
- Ensure service reliability through SLO definition, circuit breakers, retry logic,



and distributed tracing
- Integrate with open-source and cloud-native technologies including Apache Kafka, Spark, dbt, Apache Atlas, or OpenMetadata
- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to design and iterate on the metadata schema and query routing interface
- Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response, postmortems, and reliability improvements
- Contribute to CICD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Helm), and automated testing frameworks

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

- 3+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production services
- Proficiency in one or more of: Go, Rust, Java or Python-- with a preference for Rust or Python for backend services
- Hands-on experience with data pipeline development: ingestion, transformation, and metadata management at scale
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and service-to-service communication patterns
- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes (K8s) in production cloud environments
- Familiarity with at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems and their schema/catalog semantics
- Experience with distributed messaging systems such as Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis
- Proficiency with Git, code review workflows, and agile development practices
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and comfort operating in Linux environments

📌 Software Engineer (Backend, Python, Rust& AI Services) II (India)
🏢 SysTechCorp
📍 India