Senior Backend Engineer

FLEXAI LLC
San Jose, CA, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Software as a Service Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Databases Continuous Integration Data Systems DevOps Distributed Data Store
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Distributed Systems Amazon DynamoDB Job Scheduling Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL NoSQL Platform as a Service (PAAS) Software Architecture Redis Tensorflow Prometheus Azure Machine Learning Software Engineering SQL Databases AI Infrastructure Data Logging Pytorch Grafana Multi-Cloud Caching Backend Event Driven Architecture Containerization AI Platforms Kubernetes Deployment Automation Cassandra Apache Kafka Data Management Machine Learning Operations Stream Processing Grpc Docker Golang Programming Languages Crud Microservices

Job description

  • Architect and develop high-performance Golang services for FlexAI’s AI PaaS and infrastructure platform
  • Build internal APIs powering model deployment, job scheduling, and compute lifecycle management
  • Develop components interfacing with GPU/compute infrastructure and AI runtimes, * Collaborate with AI/ML and Runtime teams to integrate systems with training pipelines, inference infrastructure, experimentation workflows, and dataset/artifact management
  • Enable orchestration across cloud and on-prem environments
  • Build abstractions that simplify AI infrastructure consumption

Cloud-Native & Platform Engineering:

  • Design cloud-native, Kubernetes-native services
  • Work with DevOps/SRE on CI/CD, deployment automation, and scalability
  • Contribute to architecture decisions for multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure
  • Improve monitoring, logging, and diagnostics

Technical Leadership:

  • Lead architecture reviews and set engineering standards
  • Mentor engineers and guide complex problem-solving
  • Drive long-term roadmap for backend infrastructure and AI platform capabilities
  • Partner with Product, Runtime, and Infra leadership to translate requirements into scalable systems

Requirements

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Computing, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Go Programming Language (Golang), Production Systems, Software as a Service (SaaS), Application Programming Interface (API), Systems Administration/Management, As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll drive backend architecture, scale platform services, and build high-performance infrastructure components that power AI workloads in production environments - influencing how the platform evolves from Beta to enterprise-grade deployment. Expect high ownership and technical autonomy in a research-driven, deep-tech environment - not SaaS CRUD apps., * Languages: Golang (Primary), Python (Secondary)

  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Architecture: Microservices, gRPC, Event-driven systems
  • Data: SQL + NoSQL databases, caching, streaming systems
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry (or similar), * 5+ years of Backend or Infrastructure Engineering experience
  • Expert-level proficiency in Golang (must-have, heavy hands-on)
  • Strong experience building production-grade distributed systems
  • Proven track record on infrastructure platforms, PaaS, or deep-tech systems, * Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures and containerized environments
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cluster orchestration
  • Familiarity with compute scheduling, resource management, or platform runtimes is a strong plus

Databases & Data Systems:

  • Experience with distributed databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of caching, queues, and streaming systems (Redis, Kafka, etc.)

AI / Platform Exposure (Highly Preferred):

  • Experience on AI/ML platforms, model infrastructure, or data platforms
  • Familiarity with ML pipelines, inference systems, or GPU-backed workloads
  • Exposure to PyTorch, TensorFlow infrastructure, or model serving systems is a plus, * Infra-first backend engineers (not just API developers)
  • Background in AI infra, cloud platforms, developer platforms, or deep-tech systems
  • Strong systems thinkers who enjoy low-level performance, scalability, and architecture challenges
  • Startup-minded builders comfortable in ambiguous, high-ownership environments

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure
  • Build products used by developers and enterprises
  • High ownership, fast execution, real impact
  • Collaborative, high-caliber team

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