AI-Driven Backend Engineer — Multi-Cloud Compute

CommonAI C.I.C.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office near railway station

Free snacks

On-site gym

Job summary

CommonAI C.I.C. is seeking a capable software engineer in Cambridge to join an early-stage team building multi-cloud AI compute products.

You’ll work with agents to explore, implement, test and ship code, breaking ambiguous problems into agent-executable work while maintaining code ownership and security. You will operate in Linux-based cloud-native environments, across multiple providers, and collaborate with founders, engineers and customers to turn clear requirements into shipped features.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years' building and shipping real software in a professional setting.
• AI-native workflow: you use agents actively, can explain where they save you time, and how you verify output.
• Solid debugging judgment: you can read unfamiliar code and assess fixes.
• Comfort in Linux and deployment/ops (containers, CI/CD, cloud, IaC, observability).
• Ownership, curiosity and clear communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features for customer-facing multi-cloud AI compute products.
• Develop and test coding agents for implementation, testing, and documentation day-to-day, with senior review on higher-risk changes.
• Take ownership of the correctness and security of your own code, agent-generated or not.
• Operate within cloud-native systems across multiple providers; diagnose day-to-day issues in Linux, network, container and cloud environments.
• Work with founders, engineers and customers on defined pieces of larger projects, turning clear requirements into shipped code.
• Try out new AI tools as they're introduced and give feedback on what works.

Skills

Linux

CI/CD

Debugging

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical/scientific discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

IaC

Multi-cloud

Job description

CommonAI C.I.C. is seeking a capable software engineer in Cambridge to join an early-stage team building multi-cloud AI compute products.

You’ll work with agents to explore, implement, test and ship code, breaking ambiguous problems into agent-executable work while maintaining code ownership and security. You will operate in Linux-based cloud-native environments, across multiple providers, and collaborate with founders, engineers and customers to turn clear requirements into shipped features.