Design and implement REST APIs and backend services, optimize performance, and ensure system reliability while working with cross-functional teams.
Distributed Systems Backend Engineer
<Remote in the US and Canada>
We are looking for highly skilled Backend Engineers to rapidly deliver REST APIs and applications that leverage our models to provide delightful, multi-modal customer experiences. We are hiring at multiple career levels, including team lead positions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement public REST APIs and services, including data storage and ML backend services.
- Write clean and extensible Python and Typescript code with production-grade telemetry, scalability, debuggability and security best practices.
- Design and implement efficient database schemas for user preferences, subscription and billing management, content history management optimized for low latency responses.
- Work closely with product management, design, research, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality and user-friendly products
- Identify performance bottlenecks in services and apis. Deliver optimized solutions to address them.
- Participate in on-call, incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
Qualifications
- 5+ years in designing and building REST APIs and distributed services for enterprise and consumer products in a high scale environment.
- 2+ years of experience working with production AI/ML applications.
- Demonstrated experience in building robust backend services on Kubernetes/AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Highly proficient in Python, TypeScript.
- Experience with Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres and NoSQL databases preferable.
- Proficiency in writing comprehensive technical documentation (API documentation, design documents).
- Experience in streaming multi-modal content (audio and video) is desirable but not required.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Node.js
NoSQL
Postgres
Python
Typescript
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