Member of Technical Staff - Platform Eng

Composio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm based in San Francisco is looking for a skilled engineer to evolve their platform and APIs. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in scaling backend distributed systems and working with language models. Responsibilities include managing multiple runtimes, optimizing performance, and collaborating closely with product teams. Strong documentation skills and a comfortable Linux environment are essential. Join a small team making a big impact with innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in scaling backend distributed systems.
• Ability to maintain reliable systems while shipping fast.
• Experience building with and for language models.

Responsibilities

• Evolve platform primitives and APIs.
• Manage code execution across various runtimes.
• Optimize system performance and queries.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams.

Skills

scaling backend distributed systems

maintaining reliable systems

writing documentation

comfortable in a Linux environment

building trust

working with language models

Tools

Typescript

Go

Job description

At Composio, we are building infrastructure that allows agents to communicate with the tools you use for work including Github, Gmail, Notion, Salesforce, etc. We are a small team of engineers wrangling problems from context to search, that help us provide the most capable bridge between your agents and your tools.

We raised a $25M Series A from Lightspeed with some incredible angels like Guillermo Rauch (CEO of Vercel), Dharmesh Shah (CTO of Hubspot), Gokul Rajaram. Beginning of this year we 3x our ARR, our customer range from your friends in the YC batch to Wabi, Glean, Zoom and many more.

What you’ll do?

• evolve our platform primitives and APIs — auth, automatic refreshes, triggers, tool search, tool planning, orchestrating and managing sandboxes

• manage multiple runtimes for code execution across lambdas and firecracker

• performance optimization — tracing, CPU/heap profiling, optimizing db queries, optimizing temporal workflows.
• work closely with product engineering teams and customers to win their workloads, improving the product in the process
• writing articulate docs

"Must haves"

if you are very good, nothing is a must per-se

• core platform engineering

  • you've worked extensively in scaling backend distributed systems

  • you know how to maintain reliable systems while shipping fast

  • you are able to hold many different parts of the platform in mind at once

• ai native

  • you have built with the language models

  • you have built for the language models

• linux — you are comfortable in a linux enviornment
• typist — you can write docs well and explain complex ideas clearly
• human — you build trust and admit what you don’t know

Optional

• multiple years of experience writing Typescript, Go

• contributions to a major open source project

• started companies or build large side projects