Senior Backend Engineer

Join our team as a Senior Backend Engineer, where you will design, build, and deploy backend services for our creative brainstorming and creation products. You will work with web and video standards, build and deploy backend services and APIs to our AWS infrastructure, and write secure, stable, and scalable Python code. You will also have the opportunity to work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. This is a full-time position based in our San Francisco office.

• Design, build, and deploy backend services that power creative brainstorming and creation products.
• Work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to AWS infrastructure, writing secure, stable, and scalable Python code.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to build disruptive and novel technology, leveraging your experience in scalable services and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Experience developing scalable services using Python, using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
• At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services
• Experience working with relational databases
• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
• Experience building high availability services using CI/CD, full ranges of test validation approaches, monitoring and alerting
• Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
• Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
• Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, Cloudflare
• Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
• Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware