# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Tennr](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tennr)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Observability, vLLM, sglang, TensorRT
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Build and scale cloud infrastructure for ML training, inference, and data pipelines at a healthcare AI startup. Requires 4+ years in distributed systems, strong Python/TypeScript backend skills, AWS experience, and interest in ML infra (prior MLOps not required).

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and scale the cloud infrastructure behind our ML training, inference, and data pipelines.
- Design resilient systems for model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring that stay reliable as traffic grows.
- Own observability across the stack - logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve performance and efficiency.
- Collaborate with ML engineers, backend engineers, and cross-functional teams to integrate models cleanly with data pipelines and products.

## Requirements
- 4+ years building and scaling infrastructure in production-distributed systems, cloud platforms, or data engineering.
- Strong backend software engineering fundamentals, with proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, and PostgreSQL.
- Solid grasp of observability, reliability, and production incident response.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership; you move fast and drive projects from idea to production in a startup environment.
- Interested in growing into ML infrastructure.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Exposure to inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT), or Kubernetes.

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