Senior Backend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Role Overview
The Role
- Build AI Memory (Beyond Vectors): Our current vector-based memory is hitting its limits. You'll lead the charge to design and implement our next-generation memory system This means solving hard problems in:
- Scale Our Data & Retrieval Pipelines: As we grow, you'll be responsible for ensuring our data ingestion, hybrid search (BM25 + vector), and re-ranking pipelines are fast, reliable, and cost-effective.
- Security: Ensure our infrastructure is highly secure and observable, with a focus on speed and cost
- Graph-based Retrieval: How do you query a graph efficiently to provide the agent with rich, structured context, moving beyond simple semantic search?
- Architect a Scalable, Debuggable Agentic System: Our agent is a multi-step, tool-using system.
- You'll design clean interfaces between the agent's "brain" (the planner) and its "hands" (the tools/modalities).
- You'll build the debugging and observability tools necessary to understand why an agentic flow failed, which is one of the hardest challenges in this space.
Required Skills
- Deep experience building and scaling data-intensive backend systems in Python or Go.
- Strong system-design skills and experience working with distributed systems.
- A clear mental model for data structures and their trade-offs. You like to think deeply about how to represent complex information.
- Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines, even if you're a little frustrated with their limitations.
- Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure, observability tooling, and PostgreSQL
- A pragmatic approach. You know when to build for the long term and when to ship a clever solution that works now.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment
- Collaborative team culture
- Opportunity to shape infrastructure decisions
- Competitive compensation packages including stock and health benefits, paid time off, and parental leave. 401k options for all US-based employees.
- Flexible working hours across multiple time zones
Job Requirements
- Deep experience building and scaling data-intensive backend systems in Python or Go.
- Strong system-design skills and experience working with distributed systems.
- A clear mental model for data structures and their trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines.
- Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure, observability tooling, and PostgreSQL.
- A pragmatic approach to building solutions.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment.
- Collaborative team culture.
- Opportunity to shape infrastructure decisions.
- Competitive compensation packages including stock and health benefits, paid time off, and parental leave.
- 401k options for all US-based employees.
- Flexible working hours across multiple time zones.
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