Principal AI Data Engineer

Remote
Full Time Lead Level 10+ years

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About This Role

This role is for a Principal AI Data Engineer at CrowdStrike, responsible for designing, developing, and operating enterprise-scale AI-driven data platforms. It focuses on architecting and maintaining robust data systems that support real-time and batch workloads, utilizing Snowflake, large language models (LLMs), and cloud-native architectures. The engineer will drive implementation of trusted AI capabilities, collaborate with various teams, and ensure high availability and performance of AI data platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate AI-ready data platforms utilizing Snowflake and cloud-native services
  • Architect and deliver conversational Data & AI Assistants integrated with Slack, Gemini, and enterprise systems
  • Partner with data analysts and business SMEs to translate business questions into reliable data products and AI experiences
  • Design and implement LLM-powered integrations and RAG-based data access patterns
  • Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and resiliency of data, analytics, and AI platforms
  • Define and implement operational standards, support models, SLAs, escalation procedures, and incident lifecycle processes
  • Serve as a technical leader and mentor, establishing engineering best practices and elevating team capabilities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data engineering, AI/ML, security, product, and business units
  • Champion SRE, DevOps, and FinOps best practices through hands-on implementation and guidance

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering, AI platforms, or cloud-native systems
  • 5+ years in senior or principal-level individual contributor roles
  • Proven experience building and operating enterprise AI and data platforms at scale
  • Strong background in production operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), and platform reliability
  • Expertise in Snowflake, including Snowpark and Snowflake Intelligence AI/ML integrations
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
  • Knowledge of LLM platforms and tools such as Gemini, Glean, Salesforce AI, or similar
  • Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search
  • Proficiency with modern data stacks, including dbt, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines (batch and streaming)
  • Experience with AI/ML platforms such as Gemini, SageMaker, Bedrock, or equivalent
  • Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)
  • Strong understanding of observability, incident management, and reliability engineering
  • Excellent communication skills

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering, AI platforms, or cloud-native systems, with 5+ years in senior or principal-level individual contributor roles

Skills

AWS * Gitlab * DevOps * Terraform * Snowflake * dbt * FinOps * Gemini * Glean * SRE * Bedrock * SageMaker * Snowpark * Salesforce AI *

* Required skills

Benefits

Paid parental leave
Market-competitive compensation
Equity packages
Generous vacation and holiday policies
Professional development opportunities
Continuous learning opportunities
Community groups
World-class amenities (for on-site employees)
Paid Adoption Leave
Employee networks
Volunteer programs
Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs

About Wiraa

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to protecting organizations by stopping breaches and redefining modern security through its advanced AI-native platform. Since its inception in 2011, CrowdStrike has been at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, managing large-scale dis...

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