Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed AI Systems

BearPlex; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Learning budget

Path toward technical leadership

Job summary

BearPlex is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and operate distributed services in Go and Python for AI-intensive workloads. You will design APIs with clear contracts, implement observability, and tune data stores for predictable latency in a fully remote US setting.

Responsibilities include optimizing Go/Python backends, deploying with Docker and Kubernetes on a major cloud, and mentoring peers to raise system reliability and performance standards.

Qualifications

• Senior backend experience delivering and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong Go and Python development, plus API design with clear contracts.
• Experience with distributed data stores and cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed backend services in Go and Python for high-throughput workloads.
• Create versioned APIs with observability for dependent teams and clients.
• Tune PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis for throughput and latency.
• Build resilience with retries, backpressure, idempotency, and graceful degradation.
• Profile, optimize performance, and meet inference and data-latency needs.
• Package and deploy via Docker/Kubernetes on a major cloud; mentor peers.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

API design

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

BearPlex is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and operate distributed services in Go and Python for AI-intensive workloads. You will design APIs with clear contracts, implement observability, and tune data stores for predictable latency in a fully remote US setting.

Responsibilities include optimizing Go/Python backends, deploying with Docker and Kubernetes on a major cloud, and mentoring peers to raise system reliability and performance standards.