Staff Software Engineer: Scalable Backend & AI Infra

Hive; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. Based in San Francisco, Deploy is building scalable backend services and APIs to power AI at production scale.

The Staff Software Engineer will own design and implementation across REST APIs and distributed systems, writing secure, testable code and mentoring teams as we scale.

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 a bias towards action.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement or improve features in backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems
• Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
• 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

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Test-driven development

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Master's/PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. Based in San Francisco, Deploy is building scalable backend services and APIs to power AI at production scale.

The Staff Software Engineer will own design and implementation across REST APIs and distributed systems, writing secure, testable code and mentoring teams as we scale.