Collinear AI
MTS - Staff Engineer
$200K–$400K
Sunnyvale, California +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 7–10+ years building backend systems, platforms, or cloud services.
About the job
Own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of an AI agent improvement platform, focusing on backend systems, infrastructure, and distributed execution for enterprise customers.
What you'll do
- Design and operate multi-tenant distributed backend systems and make platform decisions across infrastructure, runtimes, and deployment models.
- Translate customer needs into engineering priorities; partner with founders and research leadership on technical strategy and roadmap.
- Establish engineering standards and mentor engineers; hiring is part of the role as the organization grows.
What they ask for
- Strong experience with distributed systems, infrastructure, and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Python, containers and orchestration, and a cloud platform.
- Experience building or operating B2B SaaS platforms at scale, including multitenancy and reliability.
- Comfort working directly with B2B customers, including handling escalations and ambiguous requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience at a cloud or data infrastructure company, an early-stage startup, or with ML platforms, evaluation systems, or large-scale data pipelines.
- Some people management or hiring experience.
Pay
USD $200,000 to $400,000 per year base salary
Tools
Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure
AI focus
Own and evolve AI agent improvement product offerings; preferred experience includes ML platforms and evaluation systems.
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