Staff Backend Engineer — Real-Time AI Platform

ValCera; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

ValCera, Dubai-based, is building a real-time voice AI infrastructure for regulated environments and needs a senior backend/data systems engineer to own the core data layer end-to-end. You will define how records sit on disk, optimize access patterns, and lift throughput while maintaining strict availability targets.

You will ship a smallest viable version within a week, with direct reporting to the founder, and without a layered management structure, ensuring reliable, observable pipelines

Qualifications

• Built or core-contributed to a database, a queue or a large-scale data system.
• You can name the subsystem, the decision you made inside it, and what that decision cost you.
• Operating one at scale is a different thing and the interview finds the difference quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own the data layer end to end, including how data sits on disk and access patterns that must be fast.
• Increase throughput by a meaningful order of magnitude while maintaining availability.
• Make production monitoring trustworthy at volume so events/outcomes never go missing.

Skills

High-load systems

Perf tuning

DB internals

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

ClickHouse

Job description

ValCera, Dubai-based, is building a real-time voice AI infrastructure for regulated environments and needs a senior backend/data systems engineer to own the core data layer end-to-end. You will define how records sit on disk, optimize access patterns, and lift throughput while maintaining strict availability targets.

You will ship a smallest viable version within a week, with direct reporting to the founder, and without a layered management structure, ensuring reliable, observable pipelines