# Senior Engineer, Backend/Infra

**Company:** [AgentMail](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/agentmail)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $250k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** APIs, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, Email Protocols, Authentication, Developer Tools, Low-Latency Systems, Infrastructure Engineering, Ai/Llm, System Design
**Posted:** 2026-03-09

> Leads engineering team to build APIs, distributed infrastructure, and low-latency systems for AI agent email communication and identity. Owns end-to-end projects with 3+ years infrastructure experience at tech companies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of 4-6 engineers
- Design APIs and abstractions that are intuitive for both humans and AI Agents
- Build high-performant, low-latency systems with the idea that agents are the end-users in mind
- Get your hands dirty by touching our core infrastructure that processes hundreds of thousands of emails per day
- Think creatively about being the bridge between cutting edge AI capabilities with something as primitive as email
- Own projects end-to-end, from system design to production rollout
- Write clear, maintainable code and strong technical documentation
- Be the frontline for feedback from our customers - we’ll trust you to be our spokesperson

## Requirements
- Solve problems end-to-end: every engineer owns a part of the product and needs to make decisions across the frontend, infrastructure, backend, and UX
- High bar for quality: obsess about details
- Clear thinker and communicator
- Highly technical: prior experience shipping production software by real users as a software engineer at a tech company or startup
- **3+ years of work experience as an engineer working on infrastructure at a tech company**
- Has architected software used in production by millions of users

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer tools
- Experience with messaging, email, auth, or protocol-heavy systems
- Experience building for AI/LLM use cases

## Compensation
- **$250k - $400k base salary**
- **1.0% - 2.0% equity**
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Doordash)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Equinox membership

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