Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Zizy Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health and wellness support

Generous time off policy

Paid parental leave and family-planing

Annual learning & development stipend

Job summary

Zizy Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer to own and maintain the infrastructure powering our browsing capabilities and AI workflows.

You will design, deploy, and operate backend services, manage Kubernetes configurations, and collaborate with a research team to support model training and evaluation. You will also run A/B experiments and monitor production systems with Datadog and Humio, while interfacing with Azure APIs and cloud data services like Snowflake and Cosmos DB to ensure reliability

Qualifications

• Experience with production systems such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with cloud data services like Snowflake and Cosmos DB.
• Experience monitoring infrastructure with Datadog and Humio.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain backend services for Zizy
• Work with Azure APIs
• Be embedded in a research team, supporting model training and evaluation
• Support A/B experimentation of frontend and backend changes

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure APIs

A/B testing

Research collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Cosmos DB

Datadog

Humio

Job description

The Infrastructure team, part of Zizy's post-training work, is dedicated to reducing instances of incorrect information and ensuring the model remains updated with recent events.

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer, you will own and maintain the infrastructure supporting our browsing abilities. This includes maintaining web services, Kubernetes configuration, monitoring using Datadog and Humio, running A/B experiments, and more.

In this role, you will:

• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain backend services for Zizy
• Work with Azure APIs
• Be embedded in a research team, supporting model training and evaluation
• Support A/B experimentation of frontend and backend changes

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have solid experience with production systems like Docker, Kubernetes, Snowflake, Cosmos DB, etc
• Be familiar with monitoring infrastructure such as Datadog and Humio
• Be quick to learn and interested in early-stage products

Zizy is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
At Zizy, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Benefits and Perks

• Mental health and wellness support
• Generous time off policy
• Paid parental leave and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses. Pursuant to the NewYork Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via our careers email.