Senior Real-Time Backend Engineer — AI & Agent-Driven

Citizen; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Citizen in New York is seeking a backend engineer to build and own parts of a real-time pipeline that ingests 911 radio, CAD feeds, user video, and partner data. You will work with a small team to deliver latency- and correctness-focused services that scale to millions of users.

The role requires Go and Python proficiency, Kubernetes expertise, and a passion for safety-critical systems. You will be based in the New York office and participate in an on-call rotation, shipping with agents and

Qualifications

• Built and run backend systems at consumer scale (real-time or event-driven).
• Experience with distributed, real-time software and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Own core backend pieces of the real-time pipeline and tooling.
• Ship AI-in-pipeline capabilities and enterprise services with agents.
• Collaborate with Mission Control and on-call operations.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Realtime systems

Incident management

Tools

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

Citizen in New York is seeking a backend engineer to build and own parts of a real-time pipeline that ingests 911 radio, CAD feeds, user video, and partner data. You will work with a small team to deliver latency- and correctness-focused services that scale to millions of users.

The role requires Go and Python proficiency, Kubernetes expertise, and a passion for safety-critical systems. You will be based in the New York office and participate in an on-call rotation, shipping with agents and