Avathon
Engineering Lead, Platform
$160K–$220K
Pleasanton, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineers.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Leads hands-on engineering of Avathon’s core industrial data and AI platform, including ingestion, data processing, the Computational Knowledge Graph, and services used by applications, models, and AI agents.
What you'll do
- Own platform architecture for data ingestion, connectors, data processing, ontology and Knowledge Graph services, and APIs.
- Lead and mentor platform engineers; set priorities, review designs and code, and partner on roadmap and releases.
- Own platform quality, performance, and reliability across SaaS, customer-cloud, on-premise, and edge deployments.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineers.
- Strong backend and distributed systems skills in Python, Java, Go or Scala.
- Experience with data pipelines, streaming (Kafka or similar), lakehouse architectures, and large-scale storage.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Nice to have
- Experience with ontologies, knowledge graphs or graph databases.
- Experience with industrial data (OPC-UA, historians, SCADA) or edge deployments.
Pay
$160,000-$220,000 USD annually, base salary
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Scala, Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS
AI focus
Builds platform services that enable models and AI agents to read from and act on the Computational Knowledge Graph safely.
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