Giga

Staff Backend Engineer

Giga
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12 months ago

Base Salary

$290k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design the evolution of Giga’s agent infrastructure while balancing speed, reliability, and complexity.
  • Own ambiguous, high-stakes technical projects and drive them to completion.
  • Identify system gaps and develop technical strategies to address them.
  • Set standards for code review, system design, and operational excellence.
  • Work across team boundaries and take responsibility for outcomes beyond individual contributions.
  • Write code, own systems, ship production work, and mentor other engineers through collaboration.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • Track record of leading complex projects.
  • Ability to articulate system design tradeoffs and turn ambiguous problems into clear technical approaches.
  • Strong coding skills and the ability to uphold high engineering standards.
  • Experience building systems that scale and understanding failure modes at different orders of magnitude.
  • Willingness to remain hands-on and ship code in a high-uncertainty environment.

Benefits

  • Catered lunch daily.
  • Dinner stipend.
  • $150/month wellness benefit for gym, fitness classes, or mental health.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid parental leave of 12 weeks maternal and 6 weeks paternal.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

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About Giga

51-200 employees

Giga builds and deploys AI support agents for large B2C enterprises, automating customer service across voice, chat, and email. The company sells enterprise software and managed AI agents to handle support and operations workflows, with named customers including DoorDash. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, it targets global enterprises and has raised a Series A to scale its platform.

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