Senior Backend Engineer, AI Cost Intelligence Platform

Virtasant; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtasant seeks a senior backend/product engineer to evolve our FinOps and AI cost intelligence platform. You will design backend-heavy features, scale data pipelines, and productionalise AI capabilities with a focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and real enterprise value.

You’ll work with autonomous ownership, direct access to product leadership, and an emphasis on turning AI experiments into durable product features that customers can trust and rely on at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend focus.
• Experience building and operating data-intensive backend systems or pipelines in production.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, reliability, and data processing.
• Ability to design scalable systems and take them from concept through production.
• Experience with AI driven development to accelerate and drive product development.
• Hands-on experience building on AWS.
• Demonstrated experience using AI in real production systems (not just experimentation).
• Comfortable working in ambiguity with product-led direction.
• Ability to architect backend services that support asynchronous workflows and AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend-heavy platform features for our platform.
• Productionalise AI-enabled capabilities (e.g. anomaly detection, recommendations, agent-based workflows).
• Implement AI thoughtfully across the entire SDLC - prototyping, testing, iteration, and deployment.
• Design and build distributed data pipelines that process cloud billing, usage, and AI telemetry.
• Build reliable systems that handle backfills, late-arriving data, and historical reprocessing.
• Design scalable data models and APIs that power customer-facing analytics and AI cost insights.
• Collaborate closely with Product to turn vision into shipped features.
• Identify blockers early, communicate clearly, and iterate fast.
• Help shape engineering standards and patterns as the product matures.
• Build AI features with evaluation criteria, feedback loops, and guardrails.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

AI production

Asynchronous workflows

Tools

AWS

Job description

Virtasant seeks a senior backend/product engineer to evolve our FinOps and AI cost intelligence platform. You will design backend-heavy features, scale data pipelines, and productionalise AI capabilities with a focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and real enterprise value.

You’ll work with autonomous ownership, direct access to product leadership, and an emphasis on turning AI experiments into durable product features that customers can trust and rely on at scale.