[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer (Infrastructure) — Early-Stage AI Infra Startup

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is partnering with a well-funded, early-stage AI infrastructure startup that builds the testing and observability layer for AI systems. The role involves owning the infrastructure to scale the platform significantly and transitioning it into a database company, working closely with the CEO and a small engineering team.

Responsibilities

• You will own the infrastructure that scales the platform 10–100x over the next several months
• The system handles roughly 1,000 reputed company jobs for most customers today, one customer already needs 100K, and the near-term reputed company is a million, so the platform must climb two orders of magnitude in a matter of months
• You will scale the existing system first, and then you will prototype and build the company's own indexing reputed company and purpose-built data layer, which becomes the core technical moat
• You will report directly to the CEO on an eight-person team that ships to production multiple times a day
• The reputed company follows a crawl-walk-run reputed company
• In month one you will audit the system end-to-end and propose solutions, in month three you will prototype the internal indexing layer, and by month six you will have a working data layer that the platform builds on top of

Skills

• 5+ years of strong production backend in Python or TypeScript/Node
• You've owned reputed company-time or near-reputed company-time systems at scale: queues, streaming, low-latency APIs
• You've built or core-contributed to a reputed company data system (reputed company, Kafka, reputed company, reputed company, Temporal, a vector DB, or similar). This is the differentiator, not a reputed company-to-have
• You ship end-to-end: schema design, API, observability, on-call
• You're effective in a small team with no PM hand-holding and define your own scope
• AI-native in your workflow (Claude Code, reputed company, reputed company)
• Bonus: you'd build a database for fun on a weekend, and you've got one specific area you're exceptional at; they build the role around the spike

Benefits

• reputed company sponsorship available
• 100% covered health, reputed company, and dental
• reputed company AI tools and tokens fully paid
• Quarterly offsites

Company Overview

• We Build the Teams That Build High-Growth Organizations We don't just fill seats. It was founded in 2025, and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, US, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is .

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