Sr. AI Platform Engineer

Sr. AI Platform Engineer

Location: Issaquah, WA

Category: Software Development

Employment Type: Contract

Work Location: Hybrid

Job ID: 36179

Date Added: 05/29/2026

3 months contract to start and is renewable

Rate 70-90 w2 no benefit

1-2 round of interview

3 days in office in Issaquah, WA

Senior Backend / AI Platform Engineer

Mainz Brady Group is seeking a Senior Backend / AI Platform Engineer to help build scalable AI-driven backend systems and autonomous agent platforms. This role focuses on modern microservices architecture, LLM integrations, semantic retrieval, and distributed AI orchestration in high-availability cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices

Build AI/LLM integrations, agent workflows, and semantic retrieval systems

Develop event-driven, containerized, and serverless architectures

Implement secure REST/gRPC APIs and distributed orchestration frameworks

Support CI/CD automation and Infrastructure as Code deployments

Required Qualifications

5+ years of backend software engineering experience

Experience with APIs, microservices, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems

Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, or AI orchestration frameworks

Strong knowledge of Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript

Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and event-driven systems

Understanding of OAuth2, CI/CD, Terraform, and scalable distributed systems