Coframe
Backend System Architect
$180K–$300K
SF Bay Area · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production.
About the job
Builds and operates Coframe’s backend infrastructure, data systems, APIs, and AI-powered workflows, shaping the platform’s architecture and technical foundation.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate reliable backend services and APIs; own projects from architecture through production and ongoing operation.
- Build systems processing high volumes of events, experiments, and customer data, and improve platform reliability, performance, observability, and scalability.
- Work with product and customer-facing teams to develop reusable platform capabilities and establish engineering standards.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing distributed or data-intensive systems.
- Proficiency in Python or another modern backend language; experience building APIs, services, databases, and asynchronous workflows.
- Track record of owning technical projects from conception through production.
Nice to have
- Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Postgres, evaluation systems, observability, orchestration, or distributed task execution.
Pay
$180K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Postgres
AI focus
Work across AI-powered workflows and collaborate with the applied AI team to build platform systems supporting Coframe’s AI products.
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