Senior Backend Engineer - Scale AI Data Platform

Plot Technologies, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth AI startup is seeking an experienced data engineer to own core data systems and stabilize high-throughput pipelines. You will create robust data access patterns and design analytical architectures, requiring deep experience with Postgres and a strong systems intuition. This role offers an opportunity to shape the future of data handling while collaborating with a small, dedicated team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Understand partitioning, locking, autovacuum, and connection pooling.
• Experience with high-read/write concurrency systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the core data systems that power Plot.
• Stabilize and harden high-throughput write paths.
• Design data access patterns that remain fast under pressure.
• Separate transactional and analytical concerns.
• Build read-optimized models for insight.
• Enable AI-native analytics.
• Make architectural calls that matter.
• Raise the bar for reliability and performance.

Skills

Deep experience operating Postgres in production

Strong systems intuition

Experience designing analytical data architectures

Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact work

High ownership mindset

Curiosity and pragmatism

Job description

A high-growth AI startup is seeking an experienced data engineer to own core data systems and stabilize high-throughput pipelines. You will create robust data access patterns and design analytical architectures, requiring deep experience with Postgres and a strong systems intuition. This role offers an opportunity to shape the future of data handling while collaborating with a small, dedicated team.