Backend Engineer — AI Infrastructure & Scalable Web Services

Otter.ai; Mountain View (CA); Sur place; USD 136 000 - 185 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Otter.ai is hiring an experienced Backend Engineer (Infrastructure) to lead web services and infrastructure enabling AI-driven products. You will work with AI researchers and product teams to deliver scalable systems powering real-time analytics for enterprises.

The role emphasizes ownership, production-grade backend design, and collaboration across AI-focused teams. Strong Python, Django, and AWS experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in developing and architecting large-scale web services, preferably supporting AI systems.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.
• Expert proficiency in Python or Go/Java/C++ and strong Django experience.
• Experience with MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra for AI workflows.
• Solid understanding of database internals, transactions, indexing, and AI workload schemas.

Responsabilités

• Build and enhance backend systems integrated with ML/AI components.
• Design robust business logic using Django and ensure seamless MySQL integration.
• Architect scalable solutions with Nginx, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra for AI workloads.
• Write reusable, efficient backend code to support real-time AI analytics.
• Collaborate with AI teams to optimize data pipelines and model deployment.

Connaissances

Python

Go/Java/C++

Django

APIs

Distributed systems

Backend performance

AWS

Formation

Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field

Outils

MySQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Cassandra

OCR?

AWS

Description du poste

Otter.ai is hiring an experienced Backend Engineer (Infrastructure) to lead web services and infrastructure enabling AI-driven products. You will work with AI researchers and product teams to deliver scalable systems powering real-time analytics for enterprises.

The role emphasizes ownership, production-grade backend design, and collaboration across AI-focused teams. Strong Python, Django, and AWS experience are essential.