Backend Engineer

Coram AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Medical cover

Paid time off

Equity

Referral bonuses

Team socials

Apple gear

Job summary

Coram AI in Bengaluru is expanding its backend team to build scalable data-driven services that power real-time security insights.

You’ll design and maintain core backend services, APIs, databases and data pipelines, ensuring reliability and high performance as traffic grows, while collaborating with front-end, ML and edge teams across time zones.

Join a fast-moving, impact-driven environment with strong tooling and equity options, contributing to multimodal AI for real-world safety.

Qualifications

• Experience building systems of meaningful scale.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Design, implement, and scale APIs, databases and pipelines as traffic grows to multi-TB scale.
• Familiar with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, AWS).
• Experience with monitoring dashboards (Grafana).
• Knowledge of authentication with Auth0.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams across time zones.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Willingness to work onsite.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of the APIs, databases and data pipelines
• Ensure the system can scale to the growing traffic, have full observability and drive down the cost
• Taking end-to-end responsibility over delivery of features, maintaining high SLA and debugging issues
• Supporting a broader front-end, edge-computing and ML team

Skills

System design & scale

Go or Python

APIs & data pipelines

IaC Pulumi AWS

Monitoring Grafana

Authentication Auth0

Distributed teams

English communication

Onsite work

Job description

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.

You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.

The role:

Our platform spans front-end, backend, ML, and real-time edge systems. In this role, you’ll design and maintain core backend services that drive data flows, reliability, and performance across the stack.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of the APIs, databases and data pipelines

• Ensure the system can scale to the growing traffic, have full observability and drive down the cost

• Taking end-to-end responsibility over delivery of features, maintaining high SLA and debugging issues

• Supporting a broader front-end, edge-computing and ML team

Skills and qualifications:

• Experience with an emphasis on building systems of reasonable scale

• Familiarity with and experience in Go or Python

• Experience designing, implementing, debugging, scaling, and optimizing APIs, databases and pipelines as traffic grows to multi-TB scale

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions (Pulumi, AWS) is a plus

• Experience in monitoring (Grafana) is a plus

• Experience in authentication (Auth0) is a plus

• Experience working with distributed teams across time zones

• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English

• Ability to work in an onsite environment

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation package

• 100% Employer paid Medical cover for you and your loved ones.

• Paid time off and paid holidays

• Equity in a rapidly growing company

• Referral bonuses

• Regular team socials, dinners, and off-sites

• The latest Apple tech and unlimited tools to help you build your best work

We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.

Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.