Autonomous
Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
$180K–$260K
New York City +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2025
- Location
- New York City
San Francisco - Experience
- 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends.
About the job
Architects and builds backend infrastructure, distributed systems, and APIs supporting AI research and deployment.
What you'll do
- Design scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs; build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows.
- Set up and optimize databases, and improve performance, reliability, security, and observability.
- Collaborate with research and infrastructure teams and contribute through code reviews and mentorship.
What they ask for
- 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends.
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language, such as Go, Rust, or C++.
- Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, orchestration, and SQL/NoSQL database setup and optimization.
- Comfort using modern AI coding tools while maintaining code quality, maintainability, and structure.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems.
- Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations.
Pay
$180K – $260K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, C++, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker
AI focus
Builds backend infrastructure for AI research, deployment, and AI/ML workflows; may support or integrate agentic AI workflows.
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