1 day ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate inbound and outbound messaging pipelines with reliable ordering, retries, and delivery.
- Build the background agent runtime with concurrency, timeouts, cancellation, and recovery from model or tool failures.
- Develop scheduling systems for reliable deferred actions with correct time-zone handling.
- Scale systems through capacity planning, load testing, database optimization, and architectural improvements.
- Maintain secure data practices, including credential encryption, Postgres schema design and migrations, and privacy-related deletion workflows.
- Build observability and cost tracking across messages, downstream model calls, and tool calls.
- Set backend engineering standards and help recruit and mentor future team members.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience, including substantial production on-call responsibility.
- Deep distributed-systems experience with queues, workers, retries, idempotency, and production failure modes.
- Experience scaling production systems through rapid growth and making architectural tradeoffs.
- Production experience with Postgres, including schema design, migrations, and performance tuning, plus cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
- Production experience with TypeScript or Python.
- Experience building messaging, telephony, or event-driven systems where dropped or duplicated events have meaningful consequences.
- Experience with observability, tracing, capacity planning, and measuring latency and cost across distributed systems.
- Hands-on technical leadership and the ability to verify and own code produced with AI-assisted development tools.
Benefits
- Base salary of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
- Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco, California.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.