Krea
Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Experience
- Ideally 4–8 years; scope and judgment are valued over years of experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Open to sponsoring international visas where possible, including STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, and E-3.
About the job
Own and operate Krea’s backend systems end-to-end, spanning its application and data layer, ML inference services, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design, build, monitor, and run production backend systems.
- Develop durable workflows for long-running inference jobs, including state machines, idempotency, and retries.
- Improve the public API and build enterprise features such as ACLs, audit logs, and entitlements.
What they ask for
- End-to-end ownership of production systems, including design, monitoring, metrics, and incidents.
- Comfort across the stack and ability to work with unfamiliar code.
- Ability to make architectural decisions for scalable systems.
- Clear communication and ability to work without extensive PM guidance.
Nice to have
- GPU or infrastructure experience, or production Kubernetes experience.
- Creative background.
Tools
SvelteKit, TypeScript, Python, Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis, ClickHouse, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and operate AI creative tools, including backend systems and Python services for ML inference.
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