Senior Backend Engineer - AI & ML Pipelines Platform

Mirage; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with employer match

Commuter benefits

Catered lunch

Dinner stipend

Grubhub membership

Wellness perks

Team offsites

Generous PTO

Job summary

Mirage is an AI-native video platform that powers production and editing through natural language. As a backend engineer, you’ll own critical systems end-to-end, partnering with product, design, client, and AI teams to deliver reliable, scalable production software powering our surfaces.

We’re seeking senior or staff+ engineers who thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving hard problems, and ship high-impact infrastructure, APIs, and ML pipelines for real user outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional industry experience.
• Track record of shipping high‑impact systems and/or products in production.
• Exceptional problem solving fundamentals and ability to learn.
• Excellent engineering taste with practicality and time‑management.
• Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment delivering end-to-end projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that power our products
• Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance
• Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production—deploying, serving, and scaling systems that combine internal research and external capabilities to unlock new product experiences.
• Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production to improve system and product quality
• Design and operate core platform infrastructure, including integrations with third-party providers, storage systems, security, and internal APIs

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

AI/ML integration

Problem solving

Learning agility

Tools

APIs

ML pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Mirage is an AI-native video platform that powers production and editing through natural language. As a backend engineer, you’ll own critical systems end-to-end, partnering with product, design, client, and AI teams to deliver reliable, scalable production software powering our surfaces.

We’re seeking senior or staff+ engineers who thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving hard problems, and ship high-impact infrastructure, APIs, and ML pipelines for real user outcomes.