Staff Backend Engineer, AI Systems

Mural; United States; Remote; USD 181,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Mural’s AI Innovation Team is seeking a senior software engineer to design and build the core backend systems that power our agentic AI collaboration platform. You’ll own orchestration, durable execution, memory, tool integration, observability, and evaluation infrastructure to enable agents to reason over product context and act for users.

You will design scalable services and APIs, mentor colleagues, influence architecture, and help define the long-term technical direction, all within a

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with reliable production systems.
• Designing and operating distributed systems for complex workflows.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts including tool use and model orchestration.
• Strong focus on production quality, observability, security and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build core backend systems powering Mural’s agent platform, including orchestration, durable execution, tool execution, memory, observability, and evaluation infrastructure
• Design scalable services and APIs to retrieve context, coordinate multi-step workflows, and act reliably for users
• Develop the agent memory layer including conversation and product context retrieval and summarization
• Create infrastructure to monitor, debug, and improve agent behavior via traces, metrics and offline evaluation
• Translate product needs into backend architectures and data models aligned with user value
• Help define the long-term technical direction for agentic AI at Mural
• Mentor others and promote best practices for reliable AI systems

Skills

Backend systems design

Distributed systems

AI/LLM familiarity

Observability and reliability

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Azure OpenAI

React

Node.js

MongoDB

Job description

ABOUT THE TEAM

The AI Innovation Team at Mural is pioneering how generative AI transforms visual collaboration and decision-making. We’re a remote-first group of engineers, designers, and product thinkers focused on helping teams work together more effectively. Our goal isn’t to replace human creativity. It’s to amplify it, building AI that enhances how people align, communicate, and make decisions visually.

YOUR MISSION

You will design and build the core AI systems and platforms that enable Mural’s next wave of agentic, AI-driven collaboration experiences.

Rather than building isolated AI features, you’ll work on the core backend systems that power Mural’s agent platform, including agent orchestration, durable execution, contextual memory, tool integration, observability, and evaluation. Your work will enable intelligent agents to reason over product context, act on behalf of users, and operate reliably and safely at scale. Our stack at Mural includes Azure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Build the core backend systems that power Mural’s agent platform, including orchestration, durable execution, tool execution, memory, observability, and evaluation infrastructure

• Design scalable services and APIs that allow AI agents to retrieve context, coordinate multi-step workflows, interact with Mural data, and act reliably on behalf of users

• Develop the agent memory layer, including systems for conversation context, product context, retrieval, summarization, compaction, and long-term context management

• Create infrastructure to monitor, debug, and improve agent behavior through traces, metrics, feedback loops, and offline evaluation

• Translate complex, open-ended product needs into clear backend architectures, service boundaries, data models, and implementation plans that align technical capabilities with user value

• Help define the technical direction for agentic AI at Mural, contributing to long-term architecture and strategy

• Champion engineering excellence, mentoring others and establishing best practices for building reliable AI systems

• Contribute to team growth through hiring, process improvements, and fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and inclusivity

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise designing, building, and operating reliable production systems, scalable services and APIs, and well-defined system architectures

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems for complex workflows, including orchestration, asynchronous processing, job execution, retries, event-driven architectures, long-running processes, and failure recovery

• Familiarity with AI, LLM, or agentic systems, including concepts such as tool use, context retrieval, evaluation, or model orchestration

• Strong focus on production quality, including observability, reliability, testing, security, maintainability, and incident response

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to produce clear technical documentation and collaborate cross-functionally

• Experience working full stack or collaborating closely on product-facing frontend experiences

• Deeper AI/ML experience, especially with LLM evaluation, experimentation, embeddings, retrieval systems

• Experience with knowledge graphs, graph-based data modeling, entity resolution, or relationship-aware retrieval systems

OUR STACK

Azure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB

The base salary + variable pay for this role ranges from $181,000 - $226,000 + benefits. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. .

Equal Opportunity

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.