Senior Backend Engineer & Tech Lead, AI Data Platforms

Sage Recruiting Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage Recruiting Inc. is helping our client find a Senior Backend Engineer in New York City. The role emphasizes ownership of design and implementation for scalable data infrastructure used by AI agents, with hands-on coding alongside technical leadership.

You will balance system design, performance, and reliability while collaborating with product, design, and research teams to ship robust features for complex workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience building and owning complex distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design systems for safe, scalable data processing across agents and storage tiers.

Skills

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Sage Recruiting Inc. is helping our client find a Senior Backend Engineer in New York City. The role emphasizes ownership of design and implementation for scalable data infrastructure used by AI agents, with hands-on coding alongside technical leadership.

You will balance system design, performance, and reliability while collaborating with product, design, and research teams to ship robust features for complex workloads.