Senior Backend Architect for AI Infrastructure

Otter.ai; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary top-tier compensation

Job summary

Otter.ai in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) to lead scalable web services and AI‑powered infrastructure development, deployment, and management.

You will collaborate with AI researchers and product teams to build backend systems with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra, and Django, while mentoring juniors and delivering robust AI-enabled features.

This role emphasizes ownership, performance, and end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Candidate must have strong foundations in databases, distributed systems, and backend performance optimization.
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of architecting scalable solutions for AI-enabled workloads.
• Design and implement robust business logic using Django and integrate with databases.
• Collaborate with AI teams to optimize data pipelines and model deployment.

Skills

Databases

Distributed systems

Backend performance

Python

Django

AWS

Go/Java/C++

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Cassandra

Job description

Otter.ai in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) to lead scalable web services and AI‑powered infrastructure development, deployment, and management.

You will collaborate with AI researchers and product teams to build backend systems with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra, and Django, while mentoring juniors and delivering robust AI-enabled features.

This role emphasizes ownership, performance, and end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.