Senior Platform Architect - AI Systems & DevEx Lead

G42; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 780,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Inception42 in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own end-to-end platform strategy and lead scalable AI-powered systems across web-scale platforms. You will drive system-level patterns, architecture, and mentoring for senior engineers in a fast-paced environment.

You will shape API design, platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevEx across products, prioritizing security, reliability, and performance in distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of experience in software engineering with strong full stack and platform engineering expertise.
• Strong experience building shared platforms, frameworks, or internal tooling.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies (React, Angular) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong backend experience (Node.js, Python, or Go) with API and service design at scale.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and platform architectures.
• Experience with API design (REST/gRPC), service contracts, and versioning strategies.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and platform-native services.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and orchestration at scale.
• Experience with observability tools (monitoring, logging, tracing) is a plus.
• Experience designing and building AI agent workflows and orchestration systems.
• Familiarity with LLM-based applications, prompt design, and tool-augmented agents.
• Experience integrating AI agents with APIs, services, and enterprise workflows.
• Understanding of agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar).
• Experience with multi-agent systems, task planning, and workflow automation.
• Knowledge of evaluation, guardrails, and reliability patterns for AI systems.
• Exposure to RAG pipelines, vector databases, and context management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable platform systems (frontend platforms, backend services, and shared infrastructure)
• Develop reusable UI frameworks, design systems, and component libraries
• Design and maintain platform APIs and shared services used across multiple products
• Establish and drive platform engineering best practices (modularity, observability, reliability, and security)
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, internal developer platforms, and automation tooling
• Improve developer experience (DevEx) by reducing friction in development, testing, and deployment
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems
• Mentor engineers and guide teams in adopting platform capabilities effectively

Skills

Full stack & platform engineering

Shared platforms / internal tooling

React

Angular

Node.js

Python

Go

Distributed systems

API design (REST/gRPC)

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

AI agent workflows knowledge

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

LangChain / similar

Job description

Inception42 in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own end-to-end platform strategy and lead scalable AI-powered systems across web-scale platforms. You will drive system-level patterns, architecture, and mentoring for senior engineers in a fast-paced environment.

You will shape API design, platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevEx across products, prioritizing security, reliability, and performance in distributed systems.