# Lead Engineer

Responsibilities: Lead design and build of major platform subsystems: orchestration, AI-driven processing layers, intelligent routing, multi-tenant controls. Set technical direction across teams for extreme scale, reliability, cost efficiency, and AI capabilities. Own architectural decisions, trade-offs, and long-term quality of critical high- volume components. Mentor senior engineers: in-depth reviews, coaching on distributed systems excellence. Champion optimisations like smart volume reduction and AI-automated handling. Partner with product and leadership on roadmap alignment (e. g., faster insights, broader coverage). Prototype bold ideas for next-level automation and efficiency. Requirements: Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent. 8-12+ years scaling large distributed SaaS or data platforms. Expert-level Golang experience at massive production scale. Mastery of event-driven systems (Kafka), microservices, cloud-native architecture, security patterns, and big data approaches. Proven cross-team impact: reliability at scale, meaningful cost reductions, governance. Strong mentoring of seniors and ability to influence technical strategy. Strategic mindset for AI

- **Id**: 4202732
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/databahn-ai-lead-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chennai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T22:35:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T22:35:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1309
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Integration & ETL Tools, Log Management & Analytics

## Company

- **Id**: 7472
- **Name**: DataBahn.ai
- **Domain**: databahn.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/databahn-ai>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T22:35:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T00:39:20Z

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