Staff Backend Engineer - Healthcare AI, Hybrid & Scalable

Raydar; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Raydar is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the distributed systems behind ambient AI workflows for healthcare tooling, in Mountain View. You will remain hands-on while guiding the team to production-ready architectures for long audio ingestion and real-time processing.

The role requires extensive backend engineering, strong Python or equivalent language skills, and experience with large-scale distributed systems, observability, and regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 7-15 years backend/platform/infrastructure experience, typically 8+ years.
• Current Staff Engineer or Tech Lead title with ownership of technical direction.
• Experience designing, building and operating production distributed systems at scale.
• Strong Python skills or equivalent backend language; API design and data models.
• Experience at large tech companies or Series B+ startups; mix of environments is valued.
• Computer Science or technical degree from a top-30 school, or equivalent experience.
• Comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration; end-to-end production delivery.
• Strong communication and healthcare tech interest.
• Audio, speech, dictation or real-time media streaming experience.
• Experience with regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2).
• Experience with Temporal, Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, SQS, Kubernetes, IaC, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Sentry.
• Experience orchestrating LLM or multimodel inference workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate backend systems for long-form audio ingestion and real-time/asynchronous streams.
• Orchestrate multi-stage transcription, diarization, LLM, clinical extraction and summarization workflows.
• Partner with mobile, product, AI, security and clinical teams for offline workflows and poor networks.
• Define SLOs and build observability with logs, metrics, traces, dashboards and alerts.
• Lead incident response and post-incident analysis to eliminate recurring failures.
• Evolve APIs, service boundaries, data models and deployment systems balancing reliability, latency and cost.
• Mentor engineers and establish standards for distributed systems and operational readiness.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Backend APIs

Technical leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability

Education

CS degree

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Temporal

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Sentry

SQS

Job description

Raydar is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the distributed systems behind ambient AI workflows for healthcare tooling, in Mountain View. You will remain hands-on while guiding the team to production-ready architectures for long audio ingestion and real-time processing.

The role requires extensive backend engineering, strong Python or equivalent language skills, and experience with large-scale distributed systems, observability, and regulated environments.