Staff Software Engineer, Backend/Infrastructure – Build the Core Systems Powering Enterprise AI
About the Company
Company Size: < !0 People
Industry: Agentic AI, Automation, Enterprise Software
Founding Year: 2023
Stage: Early-Stage Startup
Tech Stack: Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform,and other leading tools
This early-stage team is building the foundation for enterprise AI—deploying autonomous agents that deliver specialized services with human-level quality. Founded by builders from companies like Google, Databricks, and Canva, they’re moving fast to turn ambitious ideas into real-world systems.
As one of the first backend/infra engineers, you’ll design and build the systems that make enterprise AI deployments reliable, scalable, and secure. From APIs to authentication to metering and observability, you’ll have huge ownership over the technical architecture that supports mission-critical AI services. This is a high-impact, zero-to-one role where you’ll define foundational systems while staying deeply hands-on.
- Architect and build backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure that power enterprise-grade AI agents.
- Lead projects across authentication, observability, metering, billing, and metadata systems.
- Own infrastructure automation (IaC), Kubernetes-based deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Design backend solutions with an eye toward reliability, security, scalability, and high performance.
- Collaborate closely with platform engineers, solutions architects, and product teams to deliver cohesive systems at scale.
- 6+ years building and scaling backend systems and infrastructure, ideally for enterprise SaaS or AI products.
- Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, Terraform (or similar), and CI/CD systems.
- Strong backend development experience in Python (or similar languages).
- A track record of designing secure, reliable APIs and distributed systems.
- High ownership mindset—comfortable architecting systems and getting your hands dirty building them.
- Based in or willing to work onsite with the team in NYC.
- Founding seat at a venture-backed, mission-driven AI company.
- Directly shape the architecture and infrastructure from the ground up.
- Work alongside builders from top companies like Google and Databricks in a tight, fast-moving team.
- Tackle complex, real-world scaling challenges—not just prototypes.
- Competitive salary + strong equity upside at a high-growth, well-funded AI startup.
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