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SafetyKitSafetyKitSan Francisco, CA

Backend Engineer (Product, Infra)

Backend Engineer building scalable AI-agent infrastructure on AWS Serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora). Design high-performance systems, create monitoring/alerting, mentor team, and use codegen models to accelerate development while collaborating with AI/product teams.

Salary not listed
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, high-performance infrastructure.
  • Design architectures that allow both engineers and language models to quickly create, test, and deploy application code.
  • Create reliable monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure platform stability and performance.
  • Mentor teammates and lead technical decision-making across the organization.
  • Collaborate with AI and product teams to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions.
  • Drive engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing strategies, and documentation.
  • Use codegen models to move 10x faster than you did two years ago.

Requirements

  • Love language models.
  • Patience to be rigorous.
  • Act like an owner in everything you do.
  • Pick things up unusually quickly.
  • Love the weird little details of life in our customer’s companies.
  • Care about your work and moving fast.
  • Know more than you need to know with insatiable curiosity.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with AWS Serverless products (Lambda, Step Functions, RDS Aurora).
  • Obsessed with scaling without toil.
  • Love AWS CDK.
  • Work in TypeScript and a tiny amount of Python.

Skills

AWSserverlessAWS Lambdastep functionsrds auroraaws cdkTypeScriptPython
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