Staff Backend Engineer, AI Infrastructure

otterai; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Otter.ai in Seattle, WA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) to lead the design and operation of scalable web services and AI-enabled infrastructure that power enterprise products. You will partner with AI researchers and product teams to deliver robust, high-performance backend systems, mentor engineers, and drive best-practices across the stack.

You will influence architecture, own critical components, and help scale Otter.ai's AI-driven capabilities for diverse

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and architecting large-scale web services.
• Deep knowledge of databases and distributed systems.
• Expert Python and systems programming skills.
• Experience with Django and ML/infrastructure integration.
• Experience deploying services on AWS for ML workloads.
• Strong communicator capable of leading cross-team initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architecture of scalable backend solutions.
• Build and optimize backend services that integrate with AI models.
• Design robust business logic with web frameworks and databases.
• Write clean, reusable code and promote engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with AI teams to streamline data pipelines and deployment.
• Influence roadmaps and communicate technical direction to stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Go/Java/C++

Distributed systems

Databases

Django

AWS

Code quality

Communication

AI workflows

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or related

Tools

MySQL

Vitess

Kafka

Cassandra

Redis

Elasticsearch

Job description

Otter.ai in Seattle, WA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) to lead the design and operation of scalable web services and AI-enabled infrastructure that power enterprise products. You will partner with AI researchers and product teams to deliver robust, high-performance backend systems, mentor engineers, and drive best-practices across the stack.

You will influence architecture, own critical components, and help scale Otter.ai's AI-driven capabilities for diverse