Senior Backend Engineer — Remote AI Platform

Engg; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Engg is seeking a high-impact backend engineer to join its AI-native platform for cloud architecture planning. You will design and build scalable services powering observability, architecture modeling, and AI-driven recommendations, working at the intersection of distributed systems, data pipelines and ML infrastructure.

This is an individual contributor role with collaboration across product, AI research and leadership, plus mentoring.

Qualifications

• 4+ years backend engineering experience in startups or technology companies.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures in production.
• Proficiency in Go or Python with clean, idiomatic code.
• Experience building data pipelines, observability systems, and monitoring infrastructure for production services.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience integrating or working with LLM-based systems, AI workflows, or multi-agent architectures.
• Track record of building 0-to-1 systems or products from inception in startup or early-stage environments.
• Strong computer science fundamentals; graduate-level education is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems powering observability, architecture modeling, and recommendation engines using data pipelines, microservices, and system modeling techniques.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to embed LLM-based and multi-agent intelligence within the platform.
• Contribute to core architecture capabilities by identifying patterns, building services that reflect architecture decisions, and ensuring actionable visibility for users.
• Implement monitoring, fault-tolerant workflows, and observability layers for mission-critical services.
• Work cross-functionally with product managers, AI researchers, and technical leadership to translate requirements into robust platform capabilities.
• Share learnings and mentor teammates to strengthen overall engineering culture.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Go or Python

Data pipelines

DevOps tooling

LLM integration

Startup experience

CS fundamentals

Education

Computer Science degree (or equivalent)

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Cloud-native platforms

Monitoring tools

Job description

Engg is seeking a high-impact backend engineer to join its AI-native platform for cloud architecture planning. You will design and build scalable services powering observability, architecture modeling, and AI-driven recommendations, working at the intersection of distributed systems, data pipelines and ML infrastructure.

This is an individual contributor role with collaboration across product, AI research and leadership, plus mentoring.