Typeface
Staff Platform/Backend Engineer
$210K–$240K
Palo Alto, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 29, 2025
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Build and scale the distributed backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure powering Typeface’s enterprise marketing platform and AI/LLM workloads.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems and APIs; evolve infrastructure for model serving, orchestration, and data pipelines.
- Drive production reliability, performance, security, deployment, observability, and incident response; optimize latency, throughput, and cost.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and AI/ML teams to deliver technical solutions and mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of backend or platform engineering experience designing and shipping scalable production systems.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Expertise in at least one backend language and experience with a cloud platform; strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API design.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, relational and NoSQL databases, and building B2B or enterprise SaaS products.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure, LLM serving, or generative AI systems.
Pay
$210,000-$240,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Java, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker
AI focus
Architect infrastructure supporting AI/LLM workloads, including model serving, orchestration, and data pipelines; AI/ML infrastructure and generative AI experience is a bonus.
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