Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform Engineer
San Mateo, CABackend EngineeringOnsite5+ YOE
Summary
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.
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 ModelsSystems DesignDeveloper ExperienceReliability EngineeringPerformance OptimizationArchitecture