Senior Software AI Engineer

About the role

This is not a role where you will bolt AI onto an existing product as an afterthought. SqlDBM is rebuilding core workflows around AI — from how data architects design schemas to how engineers validate changes to how governance teams maintain compliance across enterprise environments.

You will work at the intersection of .NET backend engineering and applied AI — building the systems that make AI a first-class, reliable, enterprise-grade capability inside one of the most technically demanding categories in data infrastructure.

This role sits inside our dedicated AI group and reports directly to senior leadership. You will have a short line to product, architecture, and business decisions — no layers, no queue. The team is small by design, moves fast, and has direct visibility into enterprise customer needs.

What you'll do

You will own and extend the backend systems that power SqlDBM's AI capabilities. Specific areas include:

• AI-assisted data modeling workflows — backend services that allow users to describe their data needs in natural language and receive accurate, governed schema output
• Context-aware intelligence — systems that use the full richness of a user's data model, naming standards, and governance rules to produce AI output that is specific to their environment, not generic
• Automated documentation and metadata generation — AI pipelines that analyze existing schemas and produce accurate, consistent business documentation at scale
• Integration with enterprise AI ecosystems — API layers that allow external AI agents and tools to call SqlDBM as a trusted source of schema context
• Consumption tracking and orchestration — backend infrastructure that manages AI request routing, model selection, cost optimization, and usage metering
• Governance-aware AI workflows — systems that embed approval, validation, and compliance logic into AI-generated outputs before they reach production
• MCP server development — building and extending SqlDBM's Model Context Protocol server so that external AI agents and LLM-based tools can use SqlDBM as a trusted, real-time schema authority
• Tech Stack includes:

Our backend is built on modern .NET with a microservices architecture deployed on AWS. AI capabilities are built on top of major LLM providers via API, with proprietary prompt engineering, context management, and output validation layers that are core intellectual property of the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with C# and .NET
• Strong understanding of REST API design and asynchronous service architectures
• Experience integrating with external APIs and managing complex data pipelines
• Comfort working with LLMs via API — understanding of prompt construction, context management, token economics, and output validation
• Experience building systems that handle variable, structured data — schemas, metadata, or similar
• Strong engineering fundamentals — testing, code review, system design, observability
• Ability to work independently in a remote-first, fast-moving engineering team

Strong Plus

• Experience with data modeling, database design, or data engineering tooling
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms — Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, or similar
• Background building developer tools or platforms used by technical teams
• Experience with agentic AI workflows, tool-use patterns, or AI infrastructure
• Knowledge of semantic layer concepts, ontologies, or structured metadata systems
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) — building or consuming MCP servers in agentic AI architectures

• Competitive base salary and equity in a profitable, growing company
• Fully remote — work from anywhere
• Direct impact on product direction — small team, no layers, your work ships to enterprise customers
• Work on genuinely hard technical problems at the frontier of AI and enterprise data infrastructure
• Collaborative, engineering-driven culture that moves fast and trusts its people
• Benefits - comprehensive insurance coverage for employees and their dependents — including medical, dental, vision, life, and both short- and long-term disability, parental leave, an employer-sponsored 401(k) retirement plan, and stock options.