Senior Backend & AI Platform Engineer

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sureel AI, an independent unit within Warner Music Group, is seeking a senior software engineer to design and operate the backend, platform, DevOps, and MLOps stack that powers our AI rights and licensing platform. You’ll own end‑to‑end services, APIs, data pipelines, and production infrastructure.

Collaborate with AI Research, Product, and Engineering to move experiments into reliable production, build enterprise capabilities such as authentication, RBAC, multi-tenancy, observability, and

Qualifications

• Senior software engineer with production systems experience.
• Strong backend and platform engineering skills.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with ML workflows and MLOps.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and platform infrastructure across the Sureel stack.
• Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through deployment, observability, debugging, and iteration.
• Build infrastructure for high-volume AI, media, attribution, search, retrieval, and enterprise workloads.
• Work with our AI team to move experimental models and algorithms into reliable production services.
• Build and improve our MLOps capabilities across model deployment, inference, versioning, evaluation, monitoring, and reproducibility.
• Own and improve DevOps and cloud infrastructure, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containers, orchestration, security, observability, and deployment reliability.
• Build enterprise capabilities such as authentication, RBAC, multi-tenancy, auditability, bulk operations, integrations, and configurable workflows.
• Make architecture decisions across databases, queues, caching, distributed systems, compute, storage, networking, reliability, and cost.
• Work directly with Product and, when needed, customers or AI partners to turn complex requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Build internal tooling and automation that makes the entire engineering and research team more effective.

Skills

Backend engineering

Platform engineering

DevOps

MLOps

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Cloud computing

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS DynamoDB

Meilisearch

Vector search

Job description

Sureel AI, an independent unit within Warner Music Group, is seeking a senior software engineer to design and operate the backend, platform, DevOps, and MLOps stack that powers our AI rights and licensing platform. You’ll own end‑to‑end services, APIs, data pipelines, and production infrastructure.

Collaborate with AI Research, Product, and Engineering to move experiments into reliable production, build enterprise capabilities such as authentication, RBAC, multi-tenancy, observability, and