Plot Technologies
Senior Backend Engineer
New York City · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jan 23, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
- Education
- No degree requirements.
About the job
Own and evolve Plot’s backend data platform, making high-volume video ingestion, storage, analytics, and AI-powered data access reliable and performant.
What you'll do
- Stabilize and harden high-throughput ingestion and write paths; improve reliability and observability.
- Design scalable data access patterns, read-optimized models, and separation between transactional and analytical workloads.
- Guide data-platform architecture and enable internal tools and AI agents to query and reason over data efficiently.
What they ask for
- Deep experience operating Postgres in production with concurrent reads and writes, including partitioning, locking, autovacuum, and connection pooling.
- Experience designing or owning analytical data architectures, such as read-optimized schemas, aggregations, or large-scale querying patterns.
- Strong systems intuition and ability to lead ambiguous, high-impact work.
- High ownership mindset focused on correctness, reliability, and maintainability.
Tools
Postgres
AI focus
Enable AI-native analytics by designing data models and access patterns that let internal tools and AI agents answer complex analytical questions efficiently.
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