Staff Engineer, API Platform

Highlights

• Own model API platform handling tens of millions of calls daily.
• Lead end-to-end design from edge request to response at scale.
• Build metering, billing and prepaid wallets for commercial APIs.

Ideal candidate

Seasoned backend owner who thrives on end-to-end architecture, reliability and mentorship. You care about design-first engineering and building sovereign AI with population-scale impact in India.

Requirements

• 7+ years building production backend systems at scale
• Strong Go in production: designed, built and operated Go services under real load
• Comfortable in Python with FastAPI as current foundation
• Track record designing and operating high-scale, low-latency, multi-tenant distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with real-time/streaming systems: WebSockets, long-lived connections, backpressure
• Strong PostgreSQL and Redis fundamentals: schema design, query performance, caching strategy
• Comfort running services on Kubernetes in production
• Senior IC judgment on build vs buy, optimize vs ship, and mentoring others