Today, a growing number of Fortune 500 companies, including Smurfit WestRock, Estée Lauder, Coca-Cola, and more, are innovating on their own terms with Lyric. We can’t wait to see what our customers, both current and future, are empowered to build with us next. Come build with us!
The role: You'll own the data platform that Lyric's products and AI agents reason over, end to end. The hardest part is the semantic layer: a model of how a customer's supply chain fits together that agents can query reliably. It's a hands-on principal IC role. You'll set the architecture, write much of the code and raise the engineering bar, working directly with our Head of Engineering.
What you'll own
The semantic layer: entity models, ontology and knowledge graph, through to the APIs apps and agents query
Data foundations: enterprise ingestion and data contracts, schema evolution, orchestration, storage and query
Correctness and reliability in a multi-tenant product, including recovery from hard incidents
Technical direction through RFCs, design reviews and your own code, and mentoring senior engineers
What we're looking for
Data platforms or semantic layers you personally built and owned in production: knowledge graphs, metadata or metrics layers, entity models
First-principles systems reasoning: durability, failure and recovery, and where your design breaks at scale
Something you built from zero at a startup and took to production scale
You still write production code and work fluently with AI coding tools
Clear communication and the presence to lead senior engineers without authority
Good to have: Property graphs or RDF/SPARQL; entity resolution or master data; Spark, Kafka, Flink or Iceberg; durable execution; systems-performance depth; supply-chain data.
Location: Bengaluru or Chennai, hybrid; returners welcome. Open to Europe for the right person.
How we hire: Recruiter screen, an exploration call with engineering leadership, then a deep dive on a system you built. Next, a take-home build using any AI tools you like, which you present to a senior engineering panel. We close with a leadership and values conversation.