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Ambient.aiAmbient.aiRedwood City, CA

Software Engineer - Backend (Product)

Design and build backend APIs and services powering enterprise security monitoring, owning product areas end-to-end with Python, data modeling, and cloud infrastructure.

168k – 205k/yr
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship backend APIs and services, from 0-to-1 prototypes through enterprise rollout.
  • Own a product area end to end: data modeling, API design, performance, reliability, and operational health.
  • Partner with product, design, and frontend to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical plans.
  • Tune performance and reliability under real production load, including peaks from real-time alert pipelines.
  • Build the monitoring, logging, and alerting needed to catch issues before customers do.
  • Contribute to architecture reviews, code reviews, and team standards.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with meaningful time on user-facing web or mobile products.
  • Strong Python skills and production experience with Flask, Django, or FastAPI.
  • Solid API design instincts across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC.
  • Comfort modeling data across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and vector stores.
  • Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • A track record of debugging hard production issues and shipping the fix.

Nice to Have

  • Real-time systems experience: WebSockets, server-sent events, pub/sub, or streaming pipelines.
  • Working knowledge of TypeScript and a modern frontend framework like React or Vue.
  • Background in video infrastructure, computer vision applications, notification and alert routing, or LLM and agentic applications.
  • Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS into large enterprise deployments.

Skills

PythonFlaskDjangoFastAPIRestGraphQLgRPCSQLNoSQLAWSGCPAzureWebSocketsTypeScriptReact

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