Join a Seed-Stage AI Startup | Staff / Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer (NYC or SF | Onsite)
We're partnering with a fast-growing seed-stage AI startup that's redefining how autonomous agents operate in complex, high-stakes industries — from
healthcare
and
finance
to
legal tech
.
Their mission? To bring
trust, safety, and real-world reliability
to enterprise-grade AI systems.
They've built a novel agent architecture and are scaling rapidly — with
millions of real-world interactions
expected monthly.
Your Impact
As a key early engineer, you'll architect and scale the backend systems and infrastructure powering these intelligent agents. You'll work side-by-side with an exceptional technical team, shaping the foundation of a company tackling one of AI's biggest challenges:
safe, autonomous decision-making
.
What You'll Do
• Build and scale backend services and infrastructure powering AI agents
• Design cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and secure deployment frameworks
• Own reliability, observability, and system performance in high-throughput environments
• Work onsite (NYC or SF) in a deeply collaborative, mission-driven team
What You Bring
• 4+ years building backend systems and infrastructure at scale
• Strong
Python
skills and experience with
AWS / GCP / Azure
• Solid grasp of
distributed systems
,
IaC
, and
deployment automation
• Hands-on experience with
Kubernetes
,
microservices
, and
security best practices
If you're excited to shape the future of enterprise-grade AI and want to own real impact from day one, let's chat — this is one of those rare
"ground-floor" moments
worth exploring.