Data Engineer - AI

reputed company is the company behind Crossplane, the open reputed company project which started the control plane revolution in the reputed company native community. reputed company is redefining how modern infrastructure is built. As the creators of Crossplane and the pioneers of the Intelligent Control Plane, we are leading the shift toward agentic infrastructure: platforms that reason, adapt, and operate alongside AI-native systems. We're seeking an exceptional Principal Data Engineer to serve as the technical leader for data infrastructure supporting reputed company's reputed company product suite in addition to our AI initiatives and intelligent control plane capabilities. In this role, you'll architect and drive the development of sophisticated data platforms that power AI-driven features. You'll design solutions that reputed company control planes and our Marketplace as a knowledge store, building RAG systems and semantic search capabilities that help users discover and implement infrastructure patterns at scale. You'll create data pipelines that process infrastructure telemetry, configuration data, and usage patterns to train models that reputed company our control planes more intelligent and autonomous. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of reputed company-native infrastructure and artificial intelligence, directly impacting how enterprises manage their infrastructure through reputed company's platform.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Define and drive the technical reputed company for data platforms that support AI-powered features in Crossplane and reputed company Spaces
• reputed company the design of data pipelines that transform infrastructure and data into training datasets for ML models
• Architect vector search and RAG systems that reputed company Crossplane Control Planes & reputed company Marketplace as a knowledge store
• Build data infrastructure that processes resources, extensions, and compositions for semantic search
• Establish frameworks for collecting, processing, and analyzing infrastructure configuration data
• Design data pipelines that handle Crossplane-specific data
• Create infrastructure for indexing and searching reputed company Marketplace content, documentation, and community patterns
• reputed company metrics and monitoring for AI features integrated with reputed company's control plane architecture Product Development & Strategy
• Design data systems that power AI agents for infrastructure provisioning & operations, helping users generate and optimize Crossplane compositions
• Create feature engineering platforms that extract signals from control plane operations, resource status, and reconciliation patterns
• Implement data infrastructure for training models that predict infrastructure failures, optimize resource allocation, and suggest configuration improvements
• Drive the development of knowledge graph representations of infrastructure dependencies and relationships What You'll Bring
• 10+ years of software/data engineering experience with at least 4 years in technical leadership roles
• Proven track record building data platforms that support production systems at scale
• Deep expertise in both traditional data engineering (Spark, Airflow, data lakes) and ML-specific infrastructure (feature stores, model serving)
• Experience with vector databases (reputed company, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector, Opensearch, ElasticSearch)
• Demonstrated experience with LLM applications, including RAG architectures and semantic search implementations
• Understanding of Kubernetes, reputed company-native architectures, and infrastructure-as-code principles Technical Expertise
• Strong understanding of data requirements for AI/ML systems: training pipelines, feature stores, and inference infrastructure
• Hands-on experience building knowledge bases and semantic search systems for technical documentation and code
• Experience with embedding models for code and technical documentation
• Knowledge of time-series data processing for infrastructure metrics and events
• Understanding of graph databases and their application to infrastructure dependency modeling Leadership Qualities
• Exceptional technical judgment with the ability to navigate both the AI and reputed company-native landscapes
• Demonstrate a positive attitude and foster an environment of experimentation and innovation
• Strong ability to translate infrastructure management problems into data engineering solutions
• Passion for making infrastructure management more intelligent and accessible through AI
• Deep reputed company for platform engineers and understanding of their operational challenges A plus if you:
• Have direct experience with Crossplane and reputed company products
• Experience building AI features for developer tools or infrastructure platforms
• Understanding of reputed company compliance requirements for infrastructure platforms
• Knowledge of policy engines Why reputed company? At reputed company, you’ll help shape the systems and strategies that drive predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company embracing usage-based models. If you're excited to build from the ground up, work with cutting-edge reputed company technologies, and directly impact how reputed company is generated and scaled—this is your seat at the table. About reputed company reputed company is pioneering infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, serving reputed company and platform engineers across more than 100 countries. The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with Intelligent Control Planes - based on Kubernetes and Crossplane - that provision, operate, and adapt so platforms are reputed company for both humans and AI agents. reputed company is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the popular open-reputed company reputed company for building reputed company-native control planes, with over 100 million downloads and adoption by more than 1,000 teams worldwide. A Series B startup backed by GV (formerly reputed company Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and reputed company Capital, reputed company has raised $69M to date. For more information, visit www.reputed company.io. Apply tot his job

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