Senior Data Engineer - AI Infrastructure
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About the Role
Kraken (Payward) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the AI Infrastructure team to build production systems for intelligent agents. The role involves owning streaming data pipelines, designing feature stores, and implementing streaming systems.
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Responsibilities
- Own and evolve streaming data pipelines that power live inference and real time model serving across Kraken's AI infrastructure
- Design and build feature stores that serve low latency, high reliability features to production ML models
- Implement and maintain streaming systems using RisingWave, Apache Flink, or Kafka Streams
- Partner with ML engineers and AI infra teams to define data contracts, feature schemas, and pipeline SLAs
- Drive pipelines toward real time where batch exists today reducing latency from hours to seconds
- Ensure data quality, observability, and auditability across all streaming and feature engineering systems
- Contribute to inference pipeline tooling where data engineering and model serving intersect
- Evaluate emerging streaming and feature store technologies and shape the team's technical roadmap
Requirements
- 5+ years in data engineering with at least 2 years focused on streaming systems in production
- Hands on experience with RisingWave, Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, or comparable stream processing frameworks
- Strong understanding of feature store design
- Experience building data pipelines that feed production ML models or inference systems
- Proficiency in Python and/or Scala; SQL fluency required
Full Job Posting
The opportunity
- Own and evolve streaming data pipelines that power live inference and real time model serving across Kraken's AI infrastructure.
- Design and build feature stores that serve low latency, high reliability features to production ML models.
- Implement and maintain streaming systems using RisingWave, Apache Flink, or Kafka Streams, selecting the right tool for the workload.
- Partner with ML engineers and AI infra teams to define data contracts, feature schemas, and pipeline SLAs.
- Drive pipelines toward real time where batch exists today reducing latency from hours to seconds.
- Ensure data quality, observability, and auditability across all streaming and feature engineering systems.
- Contribute to inference pipeline tooling where data engineering and model serving intersect.
- Evaluate emerging streaming and feature store technologies and shape the team's technical roadmap.
What You Bring
- 5+ years in data engineering with at least 2 years focused on streaming systems in production.
- Hands on experience with RisingWave, Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, or comparable stream processing frameworks.
- Strong understanding of feature store design — online/offline consistency, point in time correctness, low latency serving.
- Experience building data pipelines that feed production ML models or inference systems.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Scala; SQL fluency required.
- Familiarity with data quality frameworks, pipeline observability, and SLA ownership.
- Comfortable operating in a fast moving, ambiguous environment embedded within an AI focused team.
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