# Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
**Company:** [Artisan](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/artisan)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Salary:** $225K-$300K
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Temporal, AWS, Distributed Systems, API Design, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2025-10-23
> Builds backend systems powering autonomous AI employees, including high-throughput AI orchestration, platform infrastructure for sales stack replacement, and data-intensive services processing millions of signals for real-time decisions. Requires 6+ years backend experience with distributed systems and cloud-native tech.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Build high-throughput AI orchestration services and pipelines to process massive volumes of signals (lead data, email engagement, deliverability metrics, behavioral patterns) and enable fast, reliable autonomous decisions.
- Design and own platform infrastructure replacing sales stack: email infrastructure, CRM, lead database, campaign engine, inbox management, and AI coordination.
- Take high ownership end-to-end: design, build, deploy, monitor systems.
- Ship and iterate very fast in a flat engineering org.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of backend experience, ideally at high-growth startup owning systems end-to-end.
- 5x engineer leveraging Claude Code effectively.
- Strong experience building/operating data-intensive services at scale.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, database performance, API design.
- Comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure: containers, orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring.
- Strong opinions on reliability, observability, testing with judgment to move fast.
- Clear communicator explaining systems to engineers and product leaders.
- TypeScript/Node preferred; Python, Go or similar fine.

## Tech Stack
- TypeScript/Node, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Mastra, Temporal, Langfuse, ECS, EC2 on AWS.
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