FriendliAI

Software Engineer – Senior Backend

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6 months ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and evolution of core backend microservices from API layer through business logic and data layer.
  • Design and build production-grade REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs for AI deployments, developer integrations, and enterprise workflows.
  • Build authentication, RBAC, billing, organization management, and secure multi-tenant SaaS capabilities.
  • Develop LLM deployment workflows and inference-specific service integrations.
  • Design and optimize data models and pipelines across PostgreSQL and ClickHouse systems.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure engineers on multi-cloud deployment and resource orchestration pipelines.
  • Set reliability and performance standards, resolve production issues, and drive engineering quality through design reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of backend or systems engineering experience in production environments.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Expertise in Python and modern frameworks such as FastAPI.
  • Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience designing APIs with REST, gRPC, and GraphQL.
  • Proficiency in data modeling and SQL with hands-on PostgreSQL and OLAP experience such as ClickHouse.
  • Working knowledge of LLM serving and experience building secure, multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native development and observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry or equivalent.
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to reason about failure modes.
  • Preferred experience includes AI or model-serving infrastructure, Kubernetes, developer-facing SDKs or CLIs, internal engineering platforms, multi-cloud resource management, incident response, production postmortems, and React or Next.js.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours.
  • Daily lunch and dinner, unlimited snacks and beverages.
  • Supportive and highly collaborative work environment.
  • Health check-up support and top-tier equipment or hardware support.
  • Startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits.
  • Work arrangement is not otherwise specified.

Tech Stack

ClickHouseFastAPIGraphQLgRPCKubernetesNext.jsPostgreSQLPythonReact

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About FriendliAI

51-200 employees
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