Senior Backend Architect: AI-Native Scale & Reliability

Francisco Partners; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

NewsBreak in Mountain View, CA is seeking a hands-on backend architect to lead an infrastructure upgrade for our high‑traffic services. You’ll untangle legacy boundaries, define clean interfaces, and ship an AI‑friendly, scalable backend behind our recommendation engine.

You’ll own reliability and observability, drive safe rollouts, and build self‑serve tooling that speeds delivery for product initiatives. 5+ years in backend, strong Java, Kubernetes, and CI/CD are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend experience in large-scale systems.
• Expertise in Java, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing scalable backend architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture upgrade of backend services, define interfaces, and improve observability.
• Build infrastructure that enables AI agents to operate safely in production.
• Automate high-toil engineering workflows into reliable, self-serve systems.
• Deliver backend capabilities for product initiatives and experiments.
• Own reliability through observability, safe rollback, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Backend architecture

Java

Kubernetes

CI/CD

High-QPS systems

Job description

NewsBreak in Mountain View, CA is seeking a hands-on backend architect to lead an infrastructure upgrade for our high‑traffic services. You’ll untangle legacy boundaries, define clean interfaces, and ship an AI‑friendly, scalable backend behind our recommendation engine.

You’ll own reliability and observability, drive safe rollouts, and build self‑serve tooling that speeds delivery for product initiatives. 5+ years in backend, strong Java, Kubernetes, and CI/CD are required.