{"id":3191120,"url":"https://alion.io/job/caterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend","title":"Lead Software Engineer (AWS, Snowflake & ML Backend)","company":{"id":176554,"name":"Caterpillar","domain":"caterpillar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/caterpillar","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":37,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.486,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":35,"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chennai, India","Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":24000,"max_usd":65000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":44},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Step Functions","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"gRPC","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-24T15:35:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Career Area:\nTechnology, Digital and DataJob Description:\nYour Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.\nWhen you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.\nJob Description: Lead Software Engineer (AWS, Snowflake & ML Backend)\nPosition Overview\nJob Title: Lead Software Engineer\nDepartment: Data Analytics\nThe Lead Software Engineer drives the technical vision, execution, and quality of core software products. This role balances hands-on coding and technical leadership with deep architecture collaboration, partnering with enterprise architects, product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams to design secure, scalable, and high-performance distributed systems. Operating heavily within AWS and Snowflake, this leader will architect the backend services, robust data infrastructure, and automated MLOps workflows that power the productionization of machine learning models and analytical workflows to generate real-time predictions and actionable business insights.\nKey Responsibilities\nML & Analytics Workflows Productionization\nModel Deployment: Architect and maintain reliable backend microservices to deploy, scale, and monitor machine learning models in production environments.\nPipeline Orchestration: Design robust batch and real-time analytical pipelines that ingest raw enterprise data, perform feature engineering, and output high-accuracy predictions.\nMLOps Governance: Establish continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices customized for ML infrastructure, including model versioning, registry, and drift tracking.\n Cloud & Data Architecture Collaboration\nAWS Framework Integration: Co-design cloud-native, distributed backend systems utilizing AWS managed services (such as SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and Step Functions).\nSnowflake Optimization: Partner with Data Architects to build optimized storage, data views, and high-performance analytical queries within Snowflake to guarantee low latency for downstream insights.\nData Security & Lineage: Ensure strict data governance, access controls, and reproducible data validation protocols across both training pipelines and live execution layers.\nTechnical Leadership & Mentorship\nHands-On Development: Write clean, efficient, and secure code, actively contributing to critical components and complex backend feature development.\nCode Quality & Standards: Champion engineering excellence by setting and enforcing coding standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and establishing robust testing strategies.\nTeam Guidance: Provide hands-on mentorship, technical coaching, and constructive feedback to junior and mid-level software engineers on the team.\n Qualifications & Skills\nExperience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a solid focus on building data-intensive applications or ML backend infrastructure.\nAWS Mastery: Hands-on expertise building architectures across the AWS ecosystem, specifically managing compute, storage, and serverless workflow orchestration.\nSnowflake Competency: Deep proficiency in advanced SQL, Snowflake warehousing, data modeling, and performance tuning for massive, complex analytic datasets.\nProgramming Skills: Strong programming background (e.g., Python) specialized in deploying scalable backend systems, REST/gRPC endpoints, and handling data pipelines.\nSoft Skills: Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to build consensus across multi-disciplinary technical teams.\nThis position requires working onsite five days a week.Relocation is available for this position.Posting Dates:\nOctober 22, 2026 - November 12, 2026Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply\nNot ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4147,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Industrial Machinery"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-24T01:32:30Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:14","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/caterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/caterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T00:07:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":61,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":176554},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=176554"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcaterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcaterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcaterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/caterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcaterpillar-lead-software-engineer-aws-snowflake-ml-backend"}]}