Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Hive; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Gym membership

Paid vacation

Equity grant eligibility

Job summary

Deploy is building an intelligence infrastructure platform, delivering both open source and proprietary AI models to developers and enterprises. We design, deploy, and scale core services and web-based APIs with a focus on security, reliability, and performance in production environments.

The team values autonomous engineers who learn fast and ship impactful backend improvements. The role emphasizes building scalable systems, contributing to core backend products, and maintaining high standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of experience building web applications.
• Experience implementing highly-available distributed systems/microservices.
• Delivered scalable backend APIs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with bias to action.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement or improve features in backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems.
• Write scalable, performant, and secure code shared across platforms.
• Contribute to product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes, and security.
• Practice test-driven development.
• Debug production issues across services and stack.
• Participate in on-call rotations as needed.
• Apply OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code.
• Maintain awareness of data handling best practices related to your role.
• Report security or policy violations to appropriate authorities.

Skills

Web development

Distributed systems

Backend APIs

Security practices

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Job description

About Deploy

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. For leading open source LLMs, Deploy operates an optimized model inference engine that keeps costs and latency low while maintaining high throughout. Deploy also offers a set of proprietary AI models that address challenges in content safety, AI & deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP & publicity protection. Trusted by the world's largest and most innovative organizations, Deploy's solutions unlock high-performance AI model inference at production scale.
Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.

About the Role

In order to execute our vision, we need to grow our team of best-in-class engineers. We are looking for developers who are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale. Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
• Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
• Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
• Practice test-driven development
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues
• Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
• Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
• Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Minimum Requirements

• You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
• You have 8+ years of experience building web applications
• You have successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
• You have delivered scalable backend APIs
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Preferred Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Interest and ability to learn other coding language

Who We Are

We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Deploy, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.

Thank you for your interest in Deploy and we hope to meet you soon!

The current expected base salary for this position ranges from $200,000 - $300,000. Actual compensation may vary depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; stock options may be offered in addition to the range provided here.

Employees are eligible to participate in a number of Company-sponsored benefits, including health, vision and dental insurance. Employees are also eligible to participate in a gym membership as part of our commitment to employee wellness. In addition, employees will be entitled to paid vacation in accordance with the Company's vacation policy.

Hired applicant may receive an equity grant in the form of an option to purchase stock in the future for a specified price.