Backend Systems Engineer — AI-Driven Logistics (Equity + Health)

Gallatin AI, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Healthcare coverage

401k

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Gallatin AI, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA, is building backend infrastructure for an AI-driven logistics platform focused on defense and national security.

You will design and scale core backend services, APIs, and data pipelines, partnering with frontend, AI/ML, and product teams to ensure high availability and strong security. The role requires expertise in Python/Node/TS/Java, REST/GraphQL, cloud, containers, testing, and a growth mindset, with leadership potential and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• Backend Development and system design experience.
• Experience building scalable APIs and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud providers and containerized applications.
• Strong debugging and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Create scalable, resilient backend services and APIs for our logistics solutions.
• Own system architecture, balancing performance, scalability, and security.
• Partner with front-end, AI/ML, and product teams to integrate services smoothly.
• Drive high availability and reliability through proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Build and maintain thorough testing strategies (unit, integration, and performance) to keep the platform stable.
• Develop pipelines that ingest data from real-time, batch, structured, and unstructured sources.

Skills

Python

Node.js

Typescript

Java

REST/GraphQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

DynamoDB

Redis

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Testing

Debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

DynamoDB

Redis

REST API

GraphQL

Job description

Gallatin AI, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA, is building backend infrastructure for an AI-driven logistics platform focused on defense and national security.

You will design and scale core backend services, APIs, and data pipelines, partnering with frontend, AI/ML, and product teams to ensure high availability and strong security. The role requires expertise in Python/Node/TS/Java, REST/GraphQL, cloud, containers, testing, and a growth mindset, with leadership potential and a track record of delivering