Staff Backend Infrastructure Engineer for AI-Driven Systems

Otter.ai; Town of Montana (WI); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Otter.ai is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) to architect and implement scalable web services that power AI-driven products. You will collaborate with AI researchers and product teams to deliver robust systems, optimize data pipelines, and deploy models at scale.

You will own backend design, leverage MySQL, Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch, and guide Django-based services across the organization, while ensuring reliability for enterprise clients.

Qualifications

• Requires advanced degree in CS or related field.
• Extensive experience in databases, distributed systems, and ML infra.
• Strong backend design and performance optimization skills.
• Proficiency in Python is essential; experience with Go/Java/C is a plus.
• Hands-on AWS deployment and ML model integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture of scalable solutions using MySQL, Vitess, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, and big data platforms.
• Build backend systems in Python that integrate with ML models and define engineering best practices.
• Design robust business logic with Django and ensure AI component compatibility.
• Write reusable, efficient code for high‑performance web services and real‑time analytics.
• Collaborate with AI teams to streamline data pipelines and model deployment.
• Serve as technical voice with stakeholders and influence AI infrastructure roadmaps.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Backend performance

Go

Java

C

SQL databases

AWS

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Ph.D. in CS or related field

Tools

MySQL

Vitess

Kafka

Cassandra

Redis

Elasticsearch

Django

AWS

Job description

Otter.ai is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) to architect and implement scalable web services that power AI-driven products. You will collaborate with AI researchers and product teams to deliver robust systems, optimize data pipelines, and deploy models at scale.

You will own backend design, leverage MySQL, Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch, and guide Django-based services across the organization, while ensuring reliability for enterprise clients.