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AI Engineering Lead

Donato Technologies Inc
Sunnyvale, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 5/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/27/2026

Responsibilities / Experience:

  • Lead service rationalization and decomposition across complex enterprise ecosystems
  • Design and build API-first, event-driven architectures
  • Contribute hands-on to domain services, integrations, and POCs
  • Enable service reuse through catalogs, standards, and governance
  • Drive incremental legacy modernization (strangler pattern)
  • Partner across global teams to influence a platform-first mindset
  • Build systems ready for AI agents, automation workflows, and future integrations

Qualifications/Required Skills:

  1. Strong Engineering & Architecture Execution (10 years)
  • Deep hands-on experience building and delivering production-grade systems in enterprise environments
  • Expertise in microservices, APIs (REST/GraphQL), event-driven architecture (Kafka), and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform)
  • Proven ability to move between architecture design, hands-on coding, and leading engineering teams with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset

  1. Service Decomposition & Enterprise Modernization
  • Strong experience with domain-driven design (DDD), service decomposition, and distributed system design
  • Hands-on track record breaking down monoliths/fragmented systems into reusable service layers
  • Experience leading modernization efforts using incremental approaches (e.g., strangler pattern) with a focus on reuse, scalability, and clean service boundaries

  1. MCP Servers & Gen AI / Agent-Based Systems
  • Proven experience building MCP server-based solutions and Gen AI agents from concept through production
  • Strong understanding of designing systems for an agentic, AI-driven ecosystem
  • Ability to integrate AI into service architectures and make platforms agent-ready for future automation and intelligence
  1. Experience designing observability strategies: distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics dashboards
  2. Deep understanding of zero-trust architecture, API security, and identity federation
  3. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline design, GitOps workflows, and release engineering
  4. Ability to make and communicate well-reasoned architectural trade-offs.

Preferred Skills:

  • Expertise with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted development tools
  • Experience building service catalogs / internal developer platforms
  • Background in highly distributed, multi-region enterprise environments
  • Exposure to AI-driven automation workflows at scale

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