6 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed systems supporting high-throughput data review and annotation pipelines.
- Build systems optimized for performance and reliability under real-world load.
- Apply security and privacy practices including fine-grained access control, secure data handling, and auditable workflows.
- Translate cross-functional requirements into clean APIs and backend abstractions.
- Collaborate with product, ML, and operations teams to improve efficiency and feedback loops.
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Write clean, tested, maintainable code and provide thoughtful code review feedback.
Requirements
- Require 3–5 years of backend engineering experience.
- Require experience building and maintaining production distributed systems.
- Expect operational awareness around observability, alerting, and failure recovery.
- Require working knowledge of security principles including least privilege and secure transport and storage.
- Ability to turn reasonably well-scoped requirements into solid designs and interfaces while clarifying ambiguity.
- Collaborative communication and feedback skills.
- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop systems, labeling tools, or ML data pipelines is a bonus.
- Startup experience is a bonus.
Benefits
- Work on backend systems that directly support road safety at scale and improve ML feedback loops.
- Meaningful ownership in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Competitive compensation and early-stage equity.
- Join a small, experienced team and work closely with senior engineers.
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About Obvio
Obvio builds solar-powered, AI-assisted camera systems and software that automate traffic-law enforcement at pedestrian-heavy locations for cities and transportation agencies. The company generates revenue by deploying and operating its hardware-plus-software platform under contracts with municipalities. Headquartered in San Carlos, California, this privately held firm reports that early partner cities saw a 50% reduction in reckless driving after deployment.