Platform Engineer — High-Scale, AI-Native Systems

Lucidya; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 224,971 - 299,962; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI-powered Customer Experience platform in Saudi Arabia is seeking an experienced engineer to work on distributed systems, build high-throughput pipelines, and diagnose complex production issues. You will have the chance to drive platform evolution and innovate at scale. Candidates should demonstrate strong experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and a proactive approach to fixing issues. The role offers the chance to make an impactful contribution in a pre-IPO setting.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in distributed systems and understanding of failure modes.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture and message queues in production.
• Deep comfort with concurrency, backpressure, and fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate high-throughput, event-driven pipelines.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues.
• Build and maintain observability across a large-scale system.
• Drive platform decoupling and service isolation.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Concurrency

Backpressure management

Fault tolerance

Debugging complex issues

Rails or Python experience

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Python

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Grafana

Loki

Job description

A leading AI-powered Customer Experience platform in Saudi Arabia is seeking an experienced engineer to work on distributed systems, build high-throughput pipelines, and diagnose complex production issues. You will have the chance to drive platform evolution and innovate at scale. Candidates should demonstrate strong experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and a proactive approach to fixing issues. The role offers the chance to make an impactful contribution in a pre-IPO setting.