4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate messaging pipelines with reliable ordering, retries, and delivery across communication channels.
- Build an agent runtime for background tasks with concurrency, timeouts, cancellation, and recovery from model or tool failures.
- Implement reliable scheduling for future actions across time zones.
- Plan capacity, load-test services, optimize databases, and address scaling bottlenecks.
- Manage credential encryption, Postgres schemas and migrations, and data deletion workflows.
- Build observability and tracing for latency and cost tracking across messages, models, and tools.
- Establish backend engineering practices and help recruit and mentor future team members.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience, including substantial on-call ownership of production systems handling meaningful traffic.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, including queues, workers, retries, idempotency, and production failure modes.
- Track record of scaling systems through rapid growth and making sound prioritization decisions.
- Production experience with Postgres, including schema design, migrations, and performance tuning.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
- Experience shipping production software in TypeScript or Python and building reliable messaging or event-driven systems.
- Experience with capacity planning, observability, distributed tracing, and measuring latency and costs.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and the ability to verify and take ownership of generated code.
Benefits
- Salary range of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
- On-site role in San Francisco, California, United States.