Nightfall AI

Staff Backend Engineer, AI Platform

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24 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build highly available and secure authentication and API services.
  • Maintain and evolve mission-critical internal databases and services.
  • Architect, optimize, and operate high-volume, auto-scaling, reliable real-time data infrastructure and services.
  • Optimize AI services to scale models for low-latency, real-time inference.
  • Build observability at scale for detailed insights into customer usage and performance.
  • Write and maintain documentation for internal and public services.
  • Decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them.

Requirements

  • Expertise in one or more systems or high-level programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, or C++.
  • Experience running scalable systems handling thousands of requests per second with three-nines reliability.
  • Experience developing complex software systems that scale to substantial data volumes or millions of users, including production-quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems, including SQL or NoSQL databases such as Postgres or Cassandra.
  • Experience building and maintaining large-scale or real-time complex data-processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Snowflake, or Databricks.
  • Eight or more years of experience with proven technical leadership and expertise in scalable, distributed architectures.
  • Experience with real-time ML inference or building agentic AI systems at scale is preferred.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaC++DatabricksGoJavaPostgreSQLPythonSnowflakeSQL
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About Nightfall AI

51-200 employees
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