Software Engineer, Systems & Platform Applied AI

Highlights

• Build backend systems turning human expertise into frontier model training data.
• Own high-throughput pipelines and job systems running at growing scale.
• Manage tens of thousands of containers and sandbox environments.

What they offer

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus if within 0.5 miles of office
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• Free Equinox membership
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Ideal candidate

Backend builder with 2-5 years operating production systems who thrives on ownership and ambiguity. You care about shipping reliable, observable services and growing quickly alongside a talent-dense team.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems
• Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and clear, maintainable code
• Hands-on experience with API design - REST, gRPC, or GraphQL, including versioning, contracts, and backward compatibility
• Solid database skills: relational data modeling, indexing, query performance, transactions and isolation, and safe migrations
• Familiarity with at least one NoSQL or key-value store and when it's the right choice
• Practical experience with distributed systems basics: queues and event streams, caching, idempotency, rate limiting, designing for partial failure
• Experience with data orchestration and workflow management systems like Airflow, Temporal, Dagster
• Ability to dig into lower-level infrastructure issues - containers, permissions, logs, traces
• Experience running services in production: containers, CI/CD, monitoring and alerting, debugging under real traffic
• Comfort with ambiguity - take loosely defined problems, ask right questions, and come back with a plan
• Genuine excitement for agentic development, fluency with modern AI dev tools, passion for writing good code
• Clear written and verbal communication
• High ownership, pragmatism, and a bias toward shipping