# Software Engineer

**Company:** [Tavily](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tavily)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Backend Development, API Design, AWS, Cloud-Native Services, Data Pipelines, Distributed Queues, Stream Processing, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Monitoring
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> Build backend infrastructure, APIs, and real-time data pipelines for a high-scale AI API. The role requires 5 years of software engineering experience, expertise with AWS and distributed systems, and strong ownership of reliability and performance.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance distributed systems.
- Design and implement backend infrastructure and API endpoints.
- Build and optimize real-time data pipelines processing billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors.
- Improve performance, monitoring, and reliability across the stack.
- Own core systems and contribute to key architectural decisions.
- Help shape an engineering culture focused on velocity and quality.

## Requirements
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend development skills.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and cloud-native services, including deploying and managing services in real-world environments.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with significant ownership.
- Strong ownership and accountability for outcomes.
- Curiosity about LLMs, retrieval, and the future of AI systems.
- Based in Tel-Aviv or open to relocating.

## Nice to Have
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes orchestration, and modern monitoring tools.

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