Backend Engineer - AI Platform & Distributed Systems

Relativity; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and retirement programs

Wellness resources

Discretionary time off

Parental leave

Home office stipend

Equity program

Job summary

Relativity is hiring a Software Engineer to design and operate backend services powering its aiR platform. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI, delivering reliable, scalable systems that support large-scale AI traffic across regions and clouds.

You will collaborate with a team to build secure services, write tests, and evolve engineering practices while staying focused on quality and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience building backend services using languages such as C#, Python, or similar.
• Strong foundational knowledge of distributed systems, scalability, and backend service design.
• Understanding of DevOps principles and experience with CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build performant, scalable, and secure backend services with a strong focus on quality, not just meeting requirements.
• Collaborate with a software development team to deliver high-quality, reliable systems that operate at massive scale.
• Develop and maintain systems that support high-throughput AI workloads, including asynchronous job orchestration and distributed processing.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests supported by static analysis and thoughtful test strategy development.
• Contribute to improving engineering processes by recommending enhancements to tools, workflows, and practices.
• Participate in pair programming to improve software quality and share design and implementation knowledge.
• Contribute to building systems that route and manage AI traffic efficiently while maintaining reliability and fairness across workloads.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Engineering collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Serverless

Cloud-native architectures

LLM APIs

Job description

Relativity is hiring a Software Engineer to design and operate backend services powering its aiR platform. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI, delivering reliable, scalable systems that support large-scale AI traffic across regions and clouds.

You will collaborate with a team to build secure services, write tests, and evolve engineering practices while staying focused on quality and performance.