# Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Fireworks AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fireworks-ai)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Backend Development, Scalable Services, Ai Systems, AI Agents, Ai Models, System Design, Developer Experience, Reliability Engineering, Performance Optimization, Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-03-20

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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