8 months ago
USA (city not specified)Mid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$150k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build core backend systems using Python, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
- Design and maintain pipelines for ingesting, normalizing, deduplicating, indexing, and querying large multimodal datasets.
- Integrate LLMs and ML models into production workflows, including RAG pipelines, embeddings, prompt execution, agentic systems, and fine-tuned models.
- Build scalable, reliable APIs and internal services with strong performance, security, and observability.
- Own features through the full lifecycle from concept and deployment to customer usage and iteration.
- Collaborate with customers and participate in customer calls to guide product development.
- Shape engineering culture, architecture standards, documentation, code quality, and team practices.
- Help establish the technical direction of an early-stage engineering organization and grow into leadership.
Requirements
- 2–10+ years of experience building and scaling production backend systems, including taking systems from zero to production and owning their full lifecycle.
- Strong backend fundamentals across services, data models, and distributed systems, with deeper expertise in one or more technical areas.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with AWS or GCP, Docker or Kubernetes, and systems designed for high reliability and uptime.
- Ability to work quickly, take ownership, make decisions amid ambiguity, and communicate clearly.
- Relevant depth in one or more of data engineering, distributed systems, AI/ML, or backend engineering.
- Computer vision or multimodal model experience is a significant plus.
- Experience with semantic search, vector databases, meaning-aware retrieval, LLM fine-tuning, RLHF, evaluation pipelines, web scraping, or large-scale API integrations is preferred.
- Startup founder or early-stage company experience is a plus.
Benefits
- $150K–$220K salary.
- Early-stage equity grant with significant upside.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k).
- Unlimited PTO.
- Flexible work timing and location, with the company emphasizing what employees ship rather than when or where they work.
- Clear path to engineering leadership as the company scales.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLPython
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About Clipbook
Clipbook builds AI-powered media monitoring and analytics software for communications, PR, and public affairs teams, helping them track, search, and analyze coverage across text, audio, and video. The company sells a subscription platform used for real-time and predictive intelligence by more than 200 enterprises, firms, and government agencies. Clipbook is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California.