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Member of Technical Staff, Backend
$200K–$300K
San Francisco office · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 13, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years at a fast-moving startup; experience shipping production backend systems.
About the job
Own and scale backend infrastructure for Highlight’s team management, permissions, integrations, asynchronous workflows, and AI-enabled product experience.
What you'll do
- Build backend systems for multi-tenancy, permissions, and internal/admin tooling; design asynchronous processing and workflow orchestration.
- Improve performance and cost, and build secure integration infrastructure for authentication, APIs, and third-party connectors.
- Strengthen observability, testing, and operational readiness while collaborating cross-functionally to deliver features end-to-end.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience at a fast-moving startup shipping production backend systems.
- Experience owning systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and debugging.
- Experience building reliable distributed systems and real-time systems with low latency and reliability at scale.
- Experience building enterprise-ready multi-tenant systems, including team management, roles/permissions, and admin/internal tooling.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LLM product infrastructure patterns, such as caching, batching, evals, and integrations.
Pay
$200K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
LLM, APIs, databases, async jobs, queues, pipelines, WebSockets, pub/sub
AI focus
Build backend infrastructure supporting AI product experiences, including LLM efficiency and integrations; partner with the ML team.
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