AI-Driven Data Infrastructure Architect

Tencent; Singapore; On-site; SGD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Tencent Cloud's Big Data team is hiring a Principal Engineer to define data infrastructure for the AI era. We build data systems that power AI, and we are also bringing AI into the core of storage, compute, and operations, so that our infrastructure can optimize itself and run reliably with less manual effort.

We welcome candidates with deep expertise in one or more of the areas below, and you will work on Compute, Storage, Data & Search, Self-Managing Systems, Platform Architecture, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and networking; strong system design skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English; Mandarin proficiency required.
• Expert in at least one of C++, Python, Java, Go, or Rust.
• Experience with storage, compute, data infrastructure, or AI infrastructure systems.
• Strong performance engineering skills; able to prove improvements through profiling, benchmarking, and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Build distributed compute engines for data and AI workloads.
• Design storage architectures for large-scale, multimodal data.
• Develop data & search capabilities: natural-language queries, text-to-SQL, and RAG."
• Create self-managing systems for monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.
• Help design the next-generation cloud data platform for AI-native workloads.
• Take work from hypothesis to benchmarking to production; share results through open source.

Skills

English fluency

Mandarin

C++

Python

Java

Go

Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Tencent Cloud's Big Data team is hiring a Principal Engineer to define data infrastructure for the AI era. We build data systems that power AI, and we are also bringing AI into the core of storage, compute, and operations, so that our infrastructure can optimize itself and run reliably with less manual effort.

We welcome candidates with deep expertise in one or more of the areas below, and you will work on Compute, Storage, Data & Search, Self-Managing Systems, Platform Architecture, and