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# Staff Software Engineer, Back End

- **Company:** The Primer AI LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Retrieval, Data Stores, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Information Retrieval, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Named Entity Recognition, Commercial Software, Redis, Google Cloud, Data Ingestion, Flask (Web Framework), Kubernetes, Data Analytics, Apache Kafka, Software Coding, Document Classification, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_af634b9d0faaaceb39449e899514bafd

## About the Role

* Experience leading commercial software technical projects end-to-end in an agile environment on any major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
 * Experience with data ingestion, processing and data retrieval systems at scale
 * Experience with working with real-time and distributed systems
 * 5+ years of shipping production grade software
 * Expertise in Python and Golang
 * Expertise in Flask, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis and Kubernetes, * Data-driven engineering; using metrics to drive decisions and inform performance and cost tradeoffs
 * Hands-on DevOps experience with cloud infrastructure
 * Experience with Kafka and Graph DBs
 * Work experience in NLP/AI/ML focused companies

## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, Back End you will have the opportunity to make a wide impact on our tooling, coding standards, and codebase. Additionally, you will take the lead on building new or updating data driven product features working with cross functional teams to solve the technical challenges of our natural language processing and machine learning technology.

We believe in creating an environment that encourages and creates opportunities for growth. Whether it's helping create and contribute to a set of architectural principles, or pushing us to adopt high-impact OSS, we need engineers to help us make those decisions.

Roles and Responsibilities

 * Architect and extend scalable ingest pipelines and data stores to ingest, analyze, and understand large volumes of data
 * Collaborate with teams on the Delta product to design an information retrieval architecture to analyze and conduct search on documents and graphs
 * Work with machine learning engineers and data scientists to extend the platform's capabilities to new models and algorithms while maintaining performance metrics
 * Work on massive datasets, integrating with features such as event and topic detection, relation extraction, summarization, entity recognition, document classification, multilingual NLP and knowledge base generation, Primer works closely with the U.S. defense and intelligence establishment. Any offer of employment is conditioned on an applicant or employee being able to meet any applicable government contract requirements. The company may rescind any offer of employment to an applicant or terminate an employee if the applicant or employee is unable to perform the functions of the position in compliance with applicable government contracts or if an applicant or employee makes a false attestation of compliance.