Platform Engineer — Multimodal AI Backend

CLIPLY PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cliply is building a high-throughput, multimodal AI platform that processes long-form video, audio and text to generate structured narrative intelligence for broadcasters and media companies. As a Backend / Platform Engineer, you will design and operate the distributed systems, media pipelines and model-serving infrastructure that power Cliply’s core engine.

You will collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate perception models and inference services into a scalable production environment.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years of backend, platform or distributed systems experience.
• Proficient in Python, Go, Java, or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Experience with microservices, REST/gRPC and async processing.
• Hands-on with distributed queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub).
• Experience deploying on AWS or GCP (EKS/GKE, EC2, S3/GCS).
• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, concurrency and fault-tolerance.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with large object storage and high-volume data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build ingestion pipelines for long-form video, audio and transcripts.
• Design distributed processing workflows for frame extraction and metadata generation.
• Implement asynchronous job orchestration for long-running tasks.
• Integrate GPU-backed model-serving endpoints via REST/gRPC.
• Build caching, batching and scheduling layers for high-volume inference workloads.
• Develop scalable storage layers for embeddings, metadata graphs, timelines and multimodal outputs.

Skills

Python

Go

Java/TypeScript

REST/gRPC APIs

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

CI/CD

Kafka/RabbitMQ

S3/GCS

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

Pub/Sub

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS/GKE

S3/GCS

Job description

Cliply is building a high-throughput, multimodal AI platform that processes long-form video, audio and text to generate structured narrative intelligence for broadcasters and media companies. As a Backend / Platform Engineer, you will design and operate the distributed systems, media pipelines and model-serving infrastructure that power Cliply’s core engine.

You will collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate perception models and inference services into a scalable production environment.