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Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Back-End), Inference

Cohere · Canada · San Francisco · United States · New York · Ottawa · Toronto · Montreal

Frontier labremotesenior$205k–$315k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Evolve backend systems powering Model Vault enterprise inference platform.
  • Build reliable control-plane services for deploying models across clouds.
  • Strengthen security, privacy and isolation for demanding enterprise workloads.

What they offer

  • RRSP matching, 401K, pension scheme and separate mental health budget
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months for either parent
  • 6 weeks paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Annual enrichment benefits for arts, fitness, quality time and workspace
  • Education stipend for conferences, courses and coaching
  • $500 home office stipend, co-working benefit and annual offsite

Ideal candidate

A seasoned backend builder who thrives on ambiguous, high-impact distributed systems problems and cares deeply about reliability, security, and simplicity at enterprise scale.

Requirements

  • Strong backend fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, networking, OS and security
  • Experience building production systems in Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar
  • Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with thoughtful tradeoff decisions
  • Designed and operated production systems at significant scale for availability and performance
  • Can take ambiguous high-impact problems to reliable production systems
  • Strong systems-design instincts across concurrency, caching, queues and failure domains
  • Deep understanding of auth, identity, cryptography, secrets and tenant isolation
remote policy
remote-friendly

Lab profile

About Cohere

Security-first enterprise AI company building frontier foundation models for business applications.

What they build

  • Command foundation models
  • Embed models
  • Rerank models

Known for

  • Security-first enterprise AI
  • Frontier model training and deployment
  • Business-focused end-to-end products

Key facts

  • Founded in 2019
  • Headquartered in Toronto, Canada
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