Staff Backend Platform Engineer – AI API & Scale

Bedrock Talent; Somerville (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Talent is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer in Boston (Hybrid) to help build the APIs and backend systems powering their AI products. You will partner with product, infrastructure, and ML teams to translate models into scalable, reliable services for developers and enterprise customers.

You will design and maintain production-grade APIs, improve reliability and performance, mentor teammates, and shape system architecture for growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building backend systems in production.
• Strong object-oriented Python experience and API design skills.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and ML teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production APIs serving enterprise and developer customers.
• Partner with product and machine learning teams to deliver customer-facing features.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Help establish architectural patterns that support long-term growth.
• Debug production systems and continuously improve platform stability.
• Mentor teammates and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend systems

Python

APIs design

Tools

REST APIs

Cloud Infrastructure

ML platforms

Job description

Bedrock Talent is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer in Boston (Hybrid) to help build the APIs and backend systems powering their AI products. You will partner with product, infrastructure, and ML teams to translate models into scalable, reliable services for developers and enterprise customers.

You will design and maintain production-grade APIs, improve reliability and performance, mentor teammates, and shape system architecture for growth.