Build and maintain backend services and metadata pipelines supporting data discovery, governance, and AI/ML workflows. Responsibilities include integrating relational databases, developing Java, Node.js, and Python services, optimizing distributed pipelines, implementing Terraform infrastructure, supporting GitLab CI/CD, and writing comprehensive tests. The role also involves troubleshooting scalability and reliability issues, designing asynchronous workflows, and collaborating on modern data lake, search, metadata, and LLM-enabled technologies.