
AI Platform Engineer
Elevance Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Indianapolis • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
CloudGRPCNoSQLSQL
About the role
- build, ship, and operate secure, scalable components of a cloud AI platform, APIs, services, distributed data jobs, and the tooling that powers our developers
- Design and implement cloud native services and APIs (REST/gRPC) with robust authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, key management), multi tenancy, quotas, and rate limiting
- Contribute to distributed processing (batch and streaming) for ingestion, normalization, and feature/vector pipelines that power search, retrieval, and inference
- Integrate services with model endpoints, vector indexes, and metadata/catalog systems; follow contracts and versioning standards for backward compatibility
- Add telemetry by default (logs, metrics, traces); build dashboards/alerts; participate in incident response and post incident improvements
- Automate with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code; create repeatable environment provisioning and deploy patterns (blue/green, canary)
- Contribute with high quality docs, SDK samples, and usage examples, support consumer onboarding and access workflows
- Write clean, well tested code; perform reviews; uphold secure coding and reliability practices; maintain runbooks and API specs
- Participate in on call rotation; proactively improve availability, latency, and cost efficiency
Requirements
- Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
- minimum of 3 years experience on one platform, multi database, multi language or multi business application
- Experience mentoring others, leading small projects and providing troubleshooting support is strongly preferred
- Solid grasp of API design (OpenAPI), eventing/message queues, and SQL/NoSQL data stores
- Familiarity with vector databases and embeddings integration
- Hands on with containers/orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, secrets/IAM, and observability concepts
- Comfort with batch/stream processing paradigms and job orchestration (DAG based schedulers)
Benefits
- merit increases
- paid holidays
- Paid Time Off
- incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement)
- medical
- dental
- vision
- short and long term disability benefits
- 401(k) +match
- stock purchase plan
- life insurance
- wellness programs
- financial education resources
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud native servicesAPIsRESTgRPCauthenticationauthorizationSQLNoSQLbatch processingstream processing
Soft skills
mentoringleading projectstroubleshooting supportdocumentationconsumer onboardingincident responseproactive improvement
Certifications
BA/BS degree in Information TechnologyBA/BS degree in Computer Science