Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Fulltime
Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer
About the Role
We are building infrastructure that processes and analyzes massive streams of AI interactions in real time. As a Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer, you will design the systems that power our platform''s scalability, reliability, and performance.
You will help build the foundation that enables customers to trust and understand their AI systems.
Responsibilities
Architect and operate highly scalable backend services and distributed systems.
Design infrastructure capable of handling millions of daily requests with low latency and high reliability.
Build and optimize high-throughput ingestion, processing, and storage pipelines.
Drive performance, resiliency, observability, and fault tolerance across the platform.
Collaborate with product and ML teams to support evolving platform requirements.
Lead technical decisions around infrastructure architecture and system design.
Participate in incident response and reliability initiatives.
Requirements
Proven track record designing and scaling production systems.
Strong expertise in distributed systems, databases, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
Experience building high-volume data ingestion and processing pipelines.
Deep understanding of system reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
Ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
Ownership mentality and willingness to solve difficult problems wherever they arise.
Preferred
Experience with streaming systems, event-driven architectures, and large-scale analytics platforms.
Experience operating infrastructure for AI or ML workloads.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and infrastructure automation.
Your stack: Typescript Python ClickHouse AWS