Senior Backend Engineer, LLMs & Data Pipelines

Petals Careers Private Limited; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Petals Careers Private Limited is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. You will build agentic workflows using LLMs and contribute to evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems to ensure AI application reliability.

The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in system design and distributed systems, and proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Go,

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in system design and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Go and hands-on experience with LLM technologies like RAG and prompt engineering is required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Build agentic workflows using LLMs.
• Develop evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems to ensure reliability and performance of AI applications.

Skills

Backend Development

API Design

Distributed Systems

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

Go

Large Language Models

Prompt Engineering

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

System Design

Data Pipelines

Agentic Workflows

Observability

Data Structures

Algorithms

Job description

Petals Careers Private Limited is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. You will build agentic workflows using LLMs and contribute to evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems to ensure AI application reliability.

The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in system design and distributed systems, and proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Go,