Senior Backend Engineer, Forge
TwelveLabs4 days ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior
Responsibilities
- Partner with product managers and frontend engineers from the product-design stage to define APIs and backend solutions and lead the design and implementation of assigned areas.
- Develop and improve shared platform systems for authentication, accounts, organizations, permissions, billing, usage measurement, and usage limits.
- Build APIs supporting video-data upload and management and model usage while maintaining consistent user experiences and compatibility with existing customer integrations.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks and improve databases, asynchronous processing, and service architecture to support increasing traffic and data scale.
- Participate in testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response, turning operational issues into reliability and security improvements.
- Own assigned services from design through deployment and operations while collaborating with ML and platform engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend engineering experience.
- Experience leading technical decisions and projects in a startup or similarly fast-changing environment with uncertainty.
- Deep understanding of backend languages such as Go, Java, or Kotlin and experience designing and operating production-grade systems.
- Deep understanding of relational databases and experience optimizing complex queries.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems using event-driven architectures such as Kafka or SQS.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale systems in cloud-native environments such as Kubernetes and AWS, with ownership of scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency decisions.
- Experience implementing complex business requirements involving platform domains such as OAuth, SSO, billing, and organization management.
- Preferred: experience with enterprise environments, B2B SaaS, or multi-tenancy.
- Preferred: deep practical experience with Go.
- Preferred: experience integrating AI/ML models or data pipelines with backend systems, especially video-processing domains.
- Preferred: practical experience with FFmpeg or AWS Media Services.
- Preferred: experience operating systems with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring or observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Must be able to travel internationally without restrictions.
Benefits
- Hybrid work combining autonomy and collaboration.
- Latest MacBook, KRW 700,000 worth of work-from-home equipment, and equipment replacement every three years.
- Unlimited LLM tokens for responsible and effective AI use by technical employees.
- Annual KRW 1,400,000 professional-development allowance for courses, conferences, and memberships.
- English education and global buddy programs.
- Taxi reimbursement for late-night and weekend commuting.
- Annual KRW 7,200,000 corporate card allowance usable for meals, transportation, and other expenses.
- Office snack bar with snacks, coffee, and seasonal fruit.
- Dinner allowance for office work after 7 p.m.
- Annual health checkups for the employee and one family member.
- Group insurance with a choice of accident, dental, or family accident coverage.
- Flu vaccination reimbursement.
- Two-week paid holiday break at the end of the year.
- All new hires have a three-month probationary period with 100% salary paid during the period.
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About TwelveLabs
TwelveLabs builds video-understanding infrastructure and multimodal AI models that let developers and enterprises search, analyze, and build applications from video and audio. It sells APIs and platform integrations, working with major clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake) to support production-scale workloads in media, entertainment, sports, security, and government. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.