Fireworks AI
Member of Technical Staff, Traffic Infrastructure
$175K–$220K
San Mateo · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience building backend or network infrastructure in cloud environments.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
About the job
Own and build the traffic infrastructure that reliably routes generative AI platform requests across regions and cloud providers.
What you'll do
- Architect and operate scalable, fault-tolerant traffic and networking services, including ingress, egress, load balancing, routing, and quality-of-service controls.
- Optimize network performance and cost, and improve reliability, availability, disaster recovery, and observability.
- Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and guide infrastructure technology choices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years building backend or network infrastructure in cloud environments.
- Strong software development skills in Go, C++, Rust, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and networking fundamentals, including performance optimization; experience owning products from design through production.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience with traffic or edge engineering, service mesh, cloud networking, or Kubernetes.
Pay
$175K – $220K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, Go, C++, Rust, Java, Python
AI focus
Build and operate the traffic infrastructure that routes requests for a generative AI platform.
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