Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic AI & Telemetry (Hybrid)

We Love AI Jobs; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Ownership of product area

Job summary

We Love AI Jobs is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own product work on Sift Agents, helping hardware engineers investigate anomalies and analyze telemetry. You will build dependable agent systems and support services, from tool interfaces and evaluations to distributed execution on Kubernetes.

This product engineering role gives you real ownership: talk to customers, decide what to build, and ship it from MVP through iterations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Own a product area by talking to customers, deciding what to build and shipping it.
• Built APIs (REST, gRPC) and complex backend services with Go, Python, or Rust.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Curious about new AI products and capable of evaluating agents and models.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate agent systems that analyze large-scale telemetry and hardware context.
• Build agent tools, execution environments, context management, guardrails, and evaluations.
• Develop distributed services and Kubernetes workloads for resilient agent execution.
• Design job-based execution systems that scale and manage agent workloads on Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain MCP server and APIs powering agentic capabilities.
• Create evaluation suites to measure impact, latency, cost, and failure modes.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

REST APIs

gRPC

Kubernetes

distributed systems

MCP

Tools

Kubernetes

Go tooling

Job description

We Love AI Jobs is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own product work on Sift Agents, helping hardware engineers investigate anomalies and analyze telemetry. You will build dependable agent systems and support services, from tool interfaces and evaluations to distributed execution on Kubernetes.

This product engineering role gives you real ownership: talk to customers, decide what to build, and ship it from MVP through iterations.