Data AI Engineer

• Experience building or operating an API gateway, reverse proxy or multi-tenant platform.
• LLM platform engineering specifics: streaming and server-sent events, token accounting, prompt and response guardrails, model evaluation.
• Kafka and Snowflake for audit and consumption data pipelines.
• Observability depth: Prometheus and PromQL, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry.
• Redis or Valkey beyond basic caching — counters, TTLs, distributed rate-limiter semantics.
• Experience delivering in a regulated enterprise environment with corporate proxies, private networking and strict change control.

Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Experience

• Data Engineer: 10 years (Required)
• AI: 2 years (Required)
• Kafka: 10 years (Required)
• OpenTelemetry: 6 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chicago, IL 60616