Backend Systems Engineer, Applied AI Platforms

Fdetimes; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Bi-annual performance bonus

Equity grant

Relocation bonus

Housing bonus

Meal stipend

Free Equinox membership

Laundry reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Descripción de la vacante

Mercor is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and operate core backend services in the Applied AI stack. You will own data models, APIs, pipelines, and deployment with a focus on reliability and observability.

You will work on high-throughput data and job pipelines, implement robust failure recovery, and collaborate with product and research partners to ship scalable systems. The role emphasizes practical, concrete software engineering and ownership.

Formación

• 2-5 years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and writing code that's clear enough for the next person to change.
• Hands-on experience with API design - REST, gRPC, or GraphQL, and an understanding of versioning, contracts, and backward compatibility.
• Practical experience with distributed systems basics: queues and event streams, caching, idempotency, rate limiting, and designing for partial failure.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and operate backend services in the Applied AI stack including APIs, data models, background jobs, and the pipelines that connect them.
• Own features end to end: scope the problem, write the design, ship the code, instrument it, and keep it healthy in production.
• Build and tune high-throughput data and job pipelines: queuing, batching, idempotency, retries, and backpressure.
• Make the system fast and reliable by adding failure recovery in pipelines, profile hot spots, Agent token and cost attribution, caching issues, and set latency, error, cost budgets you actually hold to.
• Instrument what you ship: observability, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerts that proactively catch problems.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Herramientas

Airflow

Temporal

Dagster

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Mercor is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and operate core backend services in the Applied AI stack. You will own data models, APIs, pipelines, and deployment with a focus on reliability and observability.

You will work on high-throughput data and job pipelines, implement robust failure recovery, and collaborate with product and research partners to ship scalable systems. The role emphasizes practical, concrete software engineering and ownership.