Backend Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend Software Engineer

• Focus: Distributed systems, cloud APIs, and platform services for AI agent workflows

Description

You will design and build backend product features and cloud-based services, contributing to distributed systems, high-performance APIs, reliability, and operational readiness. You’ll enable AI agentic workflows through platform capabilities such as tool-calling APIs, workflow orchestration, and production observability/guardrails. The work emphasizes fault tolerance, scalability, and meeting service-level commitments for internal and user-facing platform services.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop product features aligned with the product and engineering roadmap

• Build platform capabilities for AI agentic workflows (tool-calling APIs, workflow orchestration, observability, and guardrails)

• Scale APIs and workflows using robust, scalable distributed systems principles

• Design for fault tolerance, high availability, performance, and scalability

• Ensure platform services are operationally ready and meet customer service-level commitments

• Collaborate with teammates through code reviews and knowledge sharing

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience building distributed systems, cloud-based API services, or enterprise cloud data platforms

• Strong computer science fundamentals and proficiency in Python

• Experience developing reliable, enterprise-grade software or services

• Experience with SQL and databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or Amazon RDS

• Familiarity with data warehouse or data lake architecture and large-scale data processing

• Ability to collaborate in a team and mentor engineers through the SDLC

• Visa sponsorship is not offered

Benefits

• Ownership from Day 1 with RSUs and merit-based refresh grants

• 24 weeks fully paid parental leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers

• Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally; flexible hybrid work model

• Learning and growth via a 70-20-10 framework, mentorship, and a learning platform

• Subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and “Wellness Weeks”

• Paid Impact Days to volunteer for community and environmental causes

• Inclusion community through an Inclusion Think Tank and Inclusion Days

• Health, dental, life, 401k, and paid time off included in total compensation