
Senior Backend Engineer, AI/Agent Platform
Nightfall AI12 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
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, autoscaling, reliable real-time data infrastructure and services for semantic and classic search.
- Architect agentic systems supporting highly concurrent workflows while optimizing LLM accuracy, cost, and scalability.
- Build observability systems at scale for detailed customer-usage and performance insights.
- Write and maintain documentation for internal and public services.
- Lead a team in solving complex business problems.
Requirements
- Expertise in one or more systems or high-level programming languages, such as Python, Go, Java, or C++.
- Strong grounding in computer science, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience operating scalable systems handling thousands of requests per second with three-nines reliability.
- Experience building search and agentic AI systems at massive scale, including ingestion, text summarization, semantic and classic search, prompt and context engineering, and agent orchestration.
- Experience developing complex software systems that scale to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production-quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
- Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems, including SQL or NoSQL systems such as Postgres or Cassandra.
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale or real-time complex data-processing pipelines using Kafka, Flink, Snowflake, Hadoop, or Zookeeper.
- 8+ years of experience with proven technical leadership and expertise in scalable, distributed architectures.
- Experience with machine learning and evaluations is a plus.
- Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them.
Tech Stack
AmbassadorApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaAWSC++DockerGoJavaKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisSnowflakeSQLTerraform