Lead AI Platform Engineer
Elevance Health
full-time
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Location: California, Illinois, Tennessee, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $138,160 - $226,080 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Distributed Systems
About the role
- Own technical outcomes for core areas of the AI platform (APIs, data pipelines, developer hub/marketplace)
- Set architecture, elevate engineering standards, and ensure systems are secure, observable, scalable, and cost effective
- Lead design and delivery for platform domains including gateway policies, authN/authZ, multi tenant isolation, quotas/rate limits, usage metering, and versioning strategy
- Define SLOs/SLIs, capacity plans, caching strategies, and rollout policies (feature flags, canary, blue/green); lead design and code reviews
- Drive reliability engineering: incident management, RCAs, error budgets, and continuous hardening; reduce MTTR through automation and clear runbooks
- Mature change management across teams; manage dependencies and integration points; steward backward compatibility and deprecation processes
- Optimize cost and performance (autoscaling, concurrency, GPU/CPU scheduling for inference, storage/egress controls)
- Mentor engineers; create reusable templates, SDKs, and reference architectures; influence cross team roadmaps
- Lead vendor/tool evaluations; balance build vs. buy; steward total cost of ownership and compliance requirements
- Integrate services with model endpoints, vector indexes, and metadata/catalog systems; follow contracts and versioning standards for backward compatibility
Requirements
- Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
- Minimum of 7 years related experience
- multi platform, multi-dimensional experience, and expert level experience with business and technical applications
- Experience mentoring others and provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred
- Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred
- Deep experience with distributed systems, platform observability, and zero downtime deployments
- Proven leadership of cross team initiatives
- Strong grounding in security by design (IAM, secrets, network segmentation, data protection)
- Compliance aware delivery
- Demonstrated track record shipping developer platform capabilities (portals, catalogs, CLIs/SDKs) and usage metering/analytics
- Ability to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week and reside within commuting distance from an office (unless accommodation granted)