Senior Backend Engineer

<p><strong>Distributed Systems Backend Engineer</strong></p> <p><strong><Remote in the US and Canada> </strong></p> <p>We are looking for highly skilled Backend Engineers to rapidly deliver REST APIs and applications that leverage our models to provide delightful, multi-modal customer experiences. We are hiring at multiple career levels, including team lead positions.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design and implement public REST APIs and services, including data storage and ML backend services.</li> <li>Write clean and extensible Python and Typescript code with production-grade telemetry, scalability, debuggability and security best practices.</li> <li>Design and implement efficient database schemas for user preferences, subscription and billing management, content history management optimized for low latency responses.</li> <li>Work closely with product management, design, research, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality and user-friendly products</li> <li>Identify performance bottlenecks in services and apis. Deliver optimized solutions to address them.</li> <li>Participate in on-call, incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years in designing and building REST APIs and distributed services for enterprise and consumer products in a high scale environment.</li> <li>2+ years of experience working with production AI/ML applications.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in building robust backend services on Kubernetes/AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail</li> <li>Highly proficient in Python, TypeScript. </li> <li>Experience with Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres and NoSQL databases preferable.</li> <li>Proficiency in writing comprehensive technical documentation (API documentation, design documents).</li> <li>Experience in streaming multi-modal content (audio and video) is desirable but not required.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Equal Employment Opportunity:</strong></p> <p>We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.</p>