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Fireworks AIFireworks AISan Mateo, CA

Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform Engineer

Designs and builds scalable backend services and owns product surfaces from architecture to production. Requires 5+ years experience, including 2+ years with AI agents, bots, or models, focusing on reliability, developer experience, and business impact.

Salary not listed
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Design and build scalable backend services
  • Own major product surfaces from architecture to production
  • Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience
  • Work directly with customers to understand pain points
  • Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness
  • Use AI tooling aggressively — we expect you to automate yourself

You Might Be a Fit If

  • You like building real products, not just infrastructure for infrastructure’s sake
  • You enjoy driving initiatives across teams to get things done
  • You think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and business impact
  • You care about developer experience and clean abstractions
  • You’re curious about AI and want to build where the future is going
  • You want ownership, not task lists

Minimum Qualifications

  • Comfortable collaborating with both humans and AI systems (Yes, We’re Serious)
  • 5+ years of experience helping humans solve real problems
  • 2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models

Skills

Backend DevelopmentScalable ServicesAi SystemsAI AgentsAi ModelsSystem DesignDeveloper ExperienceReliability EngineeringPerformance OptimizationArchitecture
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