Krea

Software Engineer, Backend

Krea
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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Responsibilities

  • Own Krea’s backend systems from design through production operation
  • Work across the SvelteKit application, Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, Python ML inference services, and Kubernetes clusters
  • Build durable execution systems for long-running workflows, including state machines, idempotency, and retry semantics
  • Improve the public API and create well-documented OpenAPI documentation from Zod schemas
  • Develop enterprise features including ACLs, audit logs, and entitlements
  • Operate production systems across multiple cloud and GPU providers

Requirements

  • Experience owning real production systems end-to-end, including design, monitoring, metrics, and incidents; ideally 4–8 years of experience
  • Comfort working across the stack and with unfamiliar code
  • Strong opinions and judgment about architecting scalable systems
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Ability to work independently without extensive product-management guidance

Benefits

  • Full-time, in-person work at the waterfront office in San Francisco
  • 100% of employee health insurance premiums and 99% of dental and vision premiums covered
  • Health FSA accounts and long-term disability coverage
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • 401(k) with a 4% company-sponsored match
  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided in the office
  • Ubers covered to and from the office
  • International visa sponsorship may be available, including STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, and E-3
Krea

About Krea

51-200 employees

Krea builds a generative-AI creative platform for designers, marketers, and product teams to generate, edit, and enhance images, video, and 3D content. It offers browser-based tools and APIs under subscription plans for individuals and businesses, pairing a research lab’s models with production-grade infrastructure. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates 1000+ Kubernetes GPU clusters and petabyte-scale data pipelines to serve real-time creative workflows.

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