Remote AI Platform Engineer - Real-Time Distributed Systems

IT Trailblazers, LLC

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

IT Trailblazers, LLC is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to lead the development of cloud-native platforms that process large volumes of network and operational data to power AI experiences. This remote role supports a forward‑looking engineering group focused on scalable, secure, observable systems.

You will work on real-time distributed systems spanning networking, agentic AI, data processing, and observability.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical discipline.
  • 8 years of experience across the complete software development lifecycle.
  • 8 years of programming experience, with proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or C.
  • 5 years of experience leading the design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience in real-time microservices, stream processing, distributed data platforms, cloud infrastructure, AI or agentic systems, network telemetry, or large-scale analytics.
  • Experience designing systems that process high-volume, high-velocity data with scalability, availability, latency, and reliability.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Demonstrated ability to tackle highly complex, ambiguous, or undefined technical problems and translate them into production-ready solutions.

Skills

Software development lifecycle
Programming languages
Distributed systems leadership
Problem solving
Mentoring
Cloud infrastructure design

Education

Bachelor's degree
Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Kafka
Spark
Flink
PySpark
MapReduce

Job description

IT Trailblazers, LLC is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to lead the development of cloud-native platforms that process large volumes of network and operational data to power AI experiences. This remote role supports a forward‑looking engineering group focused on scalable, secure, observable systems.

You will work on real-time distributed systems spanning networking, agentic AI, data processing, and observability.

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