Staff AI Data Platform Engineer

axion; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Axion is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead agile backend teams. You will design and build scalable backend services and data-processing workflows that transform complex, unstructured customer data into reliable, structured outputs.

You’ll shape API, database, cloud infrastructure, and LLM-powered systems while ensuring reliability and performance, collaborating with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building production backend or data-intensive systems.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable AI-powered backend systems.
• Own the reliability and delivery of cloud-native services.
• Mentor engineers and lead cross-team technical initiatives.
• Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Data processing

Mentorship

Tools

GCP

Datadog

Containers / Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Axion is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead agile backend teams. You will design and build scalable backend services and data-processing workflows that transform complex, unstructured customer data into reliable, structured outputs.

You’ll shape API, database, cloud infrastructure, and LLM-powered systems while ensuring reliability and performance, collaborating with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.