Senior Backend Platform Engineer - AI-Powered Enterprise

Fireworks AI; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fireworks AI seeks a platform‑driven backend engineer to build the core systems powering our web app and AI workflow orchestration. You will design scalable services, own product surfaces, and improve reliability while collaborating with product, frontend, infra, and GTM teams to ship end‑to‑end features.

You will work directly with customers to understand pain points, focus on enterprise‑grade features, and aggressively leverage AI tooling to automate and scale platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience helping humans solve real problems.
• 2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models.
• Comfortable collaborating with both humans and AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services.
• Own major product surfaces from architecture to production.
• Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Work directly with customers to understand pain points.
• Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness.
• Use AI tooling aggressively — we expect you to automate yourself.

Skills

Backend engineering

Platform engineering

AI integration

API design

Customer collaboration

DevOps & reliability

Automation

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Fireworks AI seeks a platform‑driven backend engineer to build the core systems powering our web app and AI workflow orchestration. You will design scalable services, own product surfaces, and improve reliability while collaborating with product, frontend, infra, and GTM teams to ship end‑to‑end features.

You will work directly with customers to understand pain points, focus on enterprise‑grade features, and aggressively leverage AI tooling to automate and scale platform capabilities.