Backend Engineer - AI Gateway & Real-Time Inference

SBT Global, Inc.; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SBT Global, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend engineer in New Jersey to develop and maintain large-scale, real-time systems. You will work with Async Python, FastAPI, and streaming data paths to support real-time AI inference and secure cloud deployments.

The role involves API design, container orchestration, and implementing robust security and observability practices. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with HTTP/2/3, gRPC, messaging systems, and cloud networking, to ensure

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise security gateways, CASB/DLP or similar edge security.
• IAM & SSO configurations (Azure AD/Entra ID, Okta, SAML/OIDC).
• AI/LLM pipelines: prompt engineering, PII anonymisation, Azure OpenAI usage.
• API gateway operations: webhooks, rate limiting, circuit breakers.
• Observability & FinOps: Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana, cost optimisation and 24/7 incident response.

Skills

Async programming

Streaming data handling

Real-time AI pipelines

API design & testing

Security & FinOps

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Python (asyncio)

FastAPI

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis Streams

RabbitMQ / Kafka

PostgreSQL

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform

NGINX / Envoy

Istio

GitHub Actions / GitLab CI

Job description

SBT Global, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend engineer in New Jersey to develop and maintain large-scale, real-time systems. You will work with Async Python, FastAPI, and streaming data paths to support real-time AI inference and secure cloud deployments.

The role involves API design, container orchestration, and implementing robust security and observability practices. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with HTTP/2/3, gRPC, messaging systems, and cloud networking, to ensure