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Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)
$150K–$300K
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 9, 2026
About the job
Build backend developer tools and product features for large AI companies, supporting large-scale workloads and evolving AI workflows.
What you'll do
- Build and ship modern web applications and developer tools.
- Work across frontend, backend services, and data and analytics systems.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
What they ask for
- Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end.
- Comfort across TypeScript frontend development, Python backend services, and ClickHouse for data and analytics.
- Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns for large-scale workloads, including AI training and inference.
- Experience in at least one of billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, enterprise software, or LLM/diffusion model training and inference workloads.
Pay
$150K – $300K • Offers Equity (base salary; equity amount not stated)
Tools
TypeScript, Python, ClickHouse
AI focus
Build infrastructure and developer tools for AI workloads, including LLM and diffusion model training and inference, custom sandboxes, and changing AI workflows.
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