Staff Backend Engineer
Leads backend system architecture, owns high-stakes projects, and drives technical strategy for scalable AI agent infrastructure. Requires 7+ years backend experience building scalable systems with Python/Django/FastAPI.
About the job
What You'll Work On
- System architecture: Designing how our agent infrastructure should evolve as we scale, making tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and complexity
- Hard technical problems: Owning the most ambiguous, highest-stakes projects where getting it wrong would hurt the business
- Technical strategy: Identifying gaps in our systems before they become problems and building the case for addressing them
- Engineering quality: Setting standards for code review, system design, and operational excellence through your own work
You Might Be a Fit If You
- Have 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of leading complex projects
- Have opinions about how systems should be built, and can articulate the tradeoffs behind those opinions
- Can take a vague problem and turn it into a clear technical approach without much guidance
- Write excellent code and hold others to a high standard without being a bottleneck
- Are energized by hard problems and comfortable with uncertainty
- Want to be hands-on at a company where staff engineers ship code, not just review it
- Have built systems that scaled and understand what breaks at each order of magnitude
Tech Stack
Backend: Python (Django/FastAPI), TypeScript (Node.js) Infrastructure: AWS, Modal, Kubernetes, Postgres Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js (you'll interact with this when needed)
Perks & Benefits
- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $150/month wellness benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Paid parental leave (12 weeks maternal, 6 weeks paternal)
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Skills
Python, Django, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Modal, Next.js
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