Senior Backend & Data Engineer for AI-Driven Platform

People in AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

People In AI is hiring a Senior Backend / Data Engineer to build the backend systems, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines powering their AI-native platform. You will own end-to-end projects from architecture through production, collaborating with AI engineers to deploy and monitor services.

The role emphasizes scalable Python backend services, robust data workflows for geospatial data, and reliability, with cross-functional collaboration across housing and sustainability domains.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and backend development experience.
• Experience building and deploying complex production systems.
• Understanding of orchestration, data pipelines, and system reliability.
• Bonus: AI agents or geospatial data experience.

Responsibilities

• Build agent harnesses coordinating LLM calls, tool execution, and multi-step workflows.
• Design scalable Python backend services supporting AI inference, orchestration, and production applications.
• Develop reliable data pipelines for complex, messy, and geospatial datasets.
• Engineer workflow state management, failure recovery, and observability for AI agents.
• Partner with AI engineers to deploy, evaluate, and monitor AI services.
• Own technical projects end-to-end, from architecture through production.

Skills

Python

Backend

Data pipelines

Orchestration

LLM agents

Tools

APIs

Geospatial data

Job description

People In AI is hiring a Senior Backend / Data Engineer to build the backend systems, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines powering their AI-native platform. You will own end-to-end projects from architecture through production, collaborating with AI engineers to deploy and monitor services.

The role emphasizes scalable Python backend services, robust data workflows for geospatial data, and reliability, with cross-functional collaboration across housing and sustainability domains.