Senior Backend Engineer — AI Infrastructure & Scale

gigaml; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base + bonus + equity

Catered lunch daily

Dinner stipend

$500/month wellness & commuter benefit

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Giga is hiring backend engineers to design and build the infrastructure that powers our AI agents. You’ll work across the stack, from data pipelines and analytics to real-time agent systems, delivering features that directly impact customer operations.

This is not a scripted role: you’ll own problems end-to-end, choose the approach, implement it, and iterate based on results. You’ll ship using a modern tech stack and strong emphasis on reliability and scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building backend systems with reliability and scale in mind.
• Experience across data pipelines, real-time systems, and production-grade services.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end and ship with high code quality.

Responsibilities

• Own backend features across data pipelines, analytics, and real-time agent systems.
• Collaborate across stack with data, frontend, and infra teams to ship robust infra.
• Make sound architectural decisions and improve system reliability and scale.

Skills

Python

Django

FastAPI

TypeScript

Node.js

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Data pipelines

Tools

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

AWS

Modal

Kubernetes

Next.js

Job description

Giga is hiring backend engineers to design and build the infrastructure that powers our AI agents. You’ll work across the stack, from data pipelines and analytics to real-time agent systems, delivering features that directly impact customer operations.

This is not a scripted role: you’ll own problems end-to-end, choose the approach, implement it, and iterate based on results. You’ll ship using a modern tech stack and strong emphasis on reliability and scale.