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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** PLOT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, PostgreSQL, Agentic-AI
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-backend-engineer-plot-technologies-inc-10441597

## About the Role

* Deep experience operating Postgres in production under real-world read/write concurrency. You understand partitioning, locking, autovacuum, connection pooling, and why systems fail in subtle ways.
 * Strong systems intuition. You think in bottlenecks, failure modes, and tradeoffs - not just indexes or tooling.
 * Experience designing or owning analytical data architectures, including read-optimized schemas, aggregations, or large-scale querying patterns.
 * Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact work. You can take a messy system, form a clear mental model, and chart a pragmatic path forward.
 * High ownership mindset. You like digging into logs, metrics, and real data - and you care deeply about correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
 * Curiosity, pragmatism, and a desire to build foundational systems that other engineers and AI systems depend on. No degree requirements.
 * Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

## Description

* Own the core data systems that power Plot. You'll take responsibility for how millions of enriched videos flow from ingestion * storage * analytics * product surfaces.
 * Stabilize and harden high-throughput write paths. Our pipelines ingest and enrich data continuously; you'll diagnose failure modes, reduce error rates, and make ingestion reliable, observable, and predictable.
 * Design data access patterns that stay fast under pressure. You'll ensure dashboards and analytical queries remain responsive even while large volumes of data are being written concurrently.
 * Separate transactional and analytical concerns. You'll lead decisions around which workloads belong where, and design the systems and contracts that keep them from stepping on each other.
 * Build read-optimized models for insight, not just storage. This includes partitioning strategies, rollups, and schemas that reflect how data is actually queried - by humans and by AI.
 * Enable AI-native analytics. You'll shape how our internal tools and AI agents query and reason over data, making it possible to answer complex analytical questions without brute-force scans.
 * Make architectural calls that matter. You'll evaluate tradeoffs, write RFCs, and guide the evolution of Plot's data platform as scale, product needs, and AI capabilities grow.
 * Raise the bar for reliability and performance across the team. You'll define best practices, unblock other engineers, and become a go-to resource for data-related decisions.