We’re hiring a Senior Backend/Platform Engineer to scale the systems that power Antimetal’s investigation and automation engine.
This role is core to our product. You’ll build core backend and platform services, design for scale, and ensure our foundation can support rapid product growth.
What You’ll Do:
Own and scale Antimetal’s AI workflow engine, the system that ingests metrics, logs, traces, and code to run investigations and generate explainable outputs.
Design and implement distributed services that orchestrate data pipelines, automate investigations, and enable incident response at scale.
Model and optimize relational data in SQL to support high-throughput investigations and reporting.
Harden the platform for reliability by improving performance, reducing failure modes, and ensuring the system scales with customer demand.
Collaborate across product and infrastructure, translating ambiguous requirements into production-ready backend and platform features.
Set engineering standards for writing, communication, and system design, influencing how the entire product is built.
What you bring:
4-8 years of engineering experience, with 2+ years in a hyperscaling environment, see a function scale seeing 1-2x OOM
Experience building and scaling distributed systems
Proven backend API/data services expertise
Oncall experience with production systems
Comfort with ambiguity and ownership
Excellent writing and communication skills
Expertise with TypeScript in production environments
Bonus:
Background in observability, monitoring, or incident response
Exposure to AI/ML systems
Experience at early-stage startups building dev tools
Experience working on product without a product manager
Who you are:
Identify as a builder.
Are excited to work in-person from our new and spacious office in New York.
Love working in a startup environment (experience in a startup or obsession with going zero-to-one).
Enjoy working with people who are ambitious, caring, and think in systems.
Thrive in a fast-paced iterative environment where experimentation is essential.
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