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Lead Software Engineer (AWS, Snowflake & ML Backend)

Caterpillar Inc.
Chennai, IND
Full-time
Lead · 8+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 4 days ago
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Key Responsibilities

  • ML & Analytics Workflows Productionization
  • Model Deployment: Architect and maintain reliable backend microservices to deploy, scale, and monitor machine learning models in production environments.
  • Pipeline Orchestration: Design robust batch and real-time analytical pipelines that ingest raw enterprise data, perform feature engineering, and output high-accuracy predictions.
  • MLOps Governance: Establish continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices customized for ML infrastructure, including model versioning, registry, and drift tracking.
  • Cloud & Data Architecture Collaboration
  • AWS Framework Integration: Co-design cloud-native, distributed backend systems utilizing AWS managed services (such as SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and Step Functions).
  • Snowflake Optimization: Partner with Data Architects to build optimized storage, data views, and high-performance analytical queries within Snowflake to guarantee low latency for downstream insights.
  • Data Security & Lineage: Ensure strict data governance, access controls, and reproducible data validation protocols across both training pipelines and live execution layers.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship
  • Hands-On Development: Write clean, efficient, and secure code, actively contributing to critical components and complex backend feature development.
  • Code Quality & Standards: Champion engineering excellence by setting and enforcing coding standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and establishing robust testing strategies.
  • Team Guidance: Provide hands-on mentorship, technical coaching, and constructive feedback to junior and mid-level software engineers on the team.
  • Qualifications & Skills

Experience

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a solid focus on building data-intensive applications or ML backend infrastructure.
  • AWS Mastery: Hands-on expertise building architectures across the AWS ecosystem, specifically managing compute, storage, and serverless workflow orchestration.
  • Snowflake Competency: Deep proficiency in advanced SQL, Snowflake warehousing, data modeling, and performance tuning for massive, complex analytic datasets.
  • Programming Skills: Strong programming background (e.g., Python) specialized in deploying scalable backend systems, REST/gRPC endpoints, and handling data pipelines.
  • Soft Skills: Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to build consensus across multi-disciplinary technical teams.
  • This position requires working onsite five days a week.
  • Relocation is available for this position.
  • Posting Dates:
  • October 22, 2026 - November 12, 2026
  • Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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