Senior / Staff Backend Engineer
Design, build, and deploy scalable Python backend services and APIs on AWS to power creative tools, integrating with foundation models, Postgres, Redis, S3, and DynamoDB. Requires 5+ years building backend services with Python, Kubernetes/EKS, and relational databases.
About the job
Required Experience
- Experience developing scalable services using Python, using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
- Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
- Experience working with relational databases
- At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services
Nice to Have
- Experience building high availability services using CI/CD, full ranges of test validation approaches, monitoring and alerting
- Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
- Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
- Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, Cloudflare
- Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
- Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
- Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 401k
- Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
- Lunch and snacks at the office
Skills
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, Kubernetes, EKS, Postgres, Redis, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, REST APIs, Kafka, SQS, Docker, CI/CD
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