Platform Backend Engineer — Real-Time AI & ETL (Hybrid)

sightmachine; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary + Stock Options

Health Care Coverage + Life Insurance

Flexible Vacation Policy

Adaptable Working Schedule and Env.

Casual Dress Attire

Hybrid work flexibility

Catered Lunches, Snacks & Beverages

Commuter Savings Program

Company Outings

Volunteering Hours

Job summary

Sight Machine strengthens manufacturers by providing a platform that standardizes data and enables real-time visualization for factory floors. The Platform Backend Engineer role focuses on ingesting and serving sensor data, building scalable infrastructure, and delivering live analytics to operators and executives.

We value hands-on contributors who ship code, value clean architecture, and enjoy solving hard data challenges in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of shipped projects or open-source contributions.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated by work.
• Python as primary language with knowledge of another high-level language.
• Strong foundations in data structures and algorithms; interest in distributed systems.
• Experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL (NoSQL/SQL databases).
• Comfort with Unix/Linux environments.
• Clear, direct communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services powering real-time dashboards and AI model outputs.
• Ingest, model, and serve data for real-time insights at industrial scale.
• Contribute to automation and alerting layers of the platform using AI tools.
• Model heterogeneous factory data into clean, queryable structures.
• Collaborate with engineers deployed at client sites to capture real-world constraints.

Skills

Portfolio

Clear communication

Python

Unix/Linux

Distributed systems interest

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Job description

Sight Machine strengthens manufacturers by providing a platform that standardizes data and enables real-time visualization for factory floors. The Platform Backend Engineer role focuses on ingesting and serving sensor data, building scalable infrastructure, and delivering live analytics to operators and executives.

We value hands-on contributors who ship code, value clean architecture, and enjoy solving hard data challenges in a collaborative environment.