Lead Engineer - (Data Platforms, Performance, Full Stack) - W2 Role

Kellton

Reston, VA

Position: Lead Engineer – Data Platforms, Performance & Agentic AI

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: Long Term Contract

Lead end-to-end engineering solutions across data generation, ingestion, analytics, APIs, and user-facing applications.
Design and build scalable, cloud-native, high-performance data and application platforms.
Own architecture, technical design, sprint planning, code reviews, and engineering delivery.
Develop real-time and batch data pipelines, event-driven systems, telemetry, and observability solutions.
Drive performance engineering, including profiling, load testing, capacity planning, latency, throughput, and cost optimization.
Build resilient systems with strong SLAs for availability, scalability, security, and operational readiness.
Develop backend services using Node.Js/TypeScript and Python, with modern React/TypeScript front ends.
Leverage AWS services including Lambda, S3, Step Functions, SNS/SQS, Redshift, Athena, and DynamoDB.
Implement Infrastructure as Code using CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation and establish automation standards.
Design and deploy AI/ML and agentic AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, orchestration, tools, and multi-agent workflows.
Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and communicate architecture, tradeoffs, and strategy effectively.
Bring 7+ years of distributed systems experience, with a strong ownership mindset and focus on scalability, reliability, and emerging AI technologies.

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Vacancy posted 17 hours ago

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