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BraintrustBraintrustNew York, NY

Software Engineer, Backend

Build scalable backend infrastructure for AI observability platform, including real-time data pipelines, LLM integrations with OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini, and open-source tracing libraries. Requires 5+ years backend experience with Node.js/Go/Python, Postgres/Redis, AWS, and observability tools.

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On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What you'll do

  • Design and ship features that give users deep insight into their LLM usage and performance.
  • Integrate, proxy, cache, and collect data from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other major model providers that our customers rely on.
  • Develop and evolve robust, efficient open source libraries for tracing and evaluating LLM calls inside customer applications.
  • Build highly available real-time data pipelines to ingest, store, and query large volumes of structured and semi-structured AI usage data.
  • Collaborate closely with product engineers to ship polished, end-to-end features that solve real problems for our customers, such as:
    • Bundling and uploading javascript and python code snippets to be used as online, on-demand function calls for LLM workflows.
    • Support for parsing and uploading attachments from LLM multimodal outputs into long term storage.
    • Role-based access controls and data retention policies for enterprise use cases.

Ideal candidate credentials

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience across multiple parts of the stack
  • Strong systems thinking: you’ve owned or contributed to infrastructure projects and know how to design for scale, uptime, and data integrity
  • Proficient in modern backend technologies (e.g., Node.js, Go, Python, Rust, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Docker, AWS)
  • Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar) and a passion for making systems operable, available and rock solid.
  • Comfortable with ambiguous problems and excited to partner across the company to ship impactful work
  • Clear communicator who documents decisions, shares context, and helps lift the team

Skills

Node.jsGoPythonRustPostgresRedisTerraformDockerAWSGrafanaPrometheusDatadog
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