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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Core Backend, Cloud Customer Experience

Sunnyvale, CA - US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable backend services powering the user-facing experiences of an AI-focused cloud platform, including API gateways, resource management, quota enforcement, and notification systems.

Role type

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

Builds

API Gateway, Resource Management Layer, Quota Management System, Notification Platform, User Onboarding Flows

Domain

AI Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go, Rust, Java, C++, gRPC/protobuf, REST, PostgreSQL, Kafka/NATS/Pub/Sub, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, SLO definition, observability

Preferred skills

Experience building infrastructure tooling, mentoring engineers, improving hiring practices

Technologies

Go, Rust, Java, C++, gRPC, protobuf, REST, PostgreSQL, Kafka, NATS, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the API gateway for resource management traffic; Build the notification and eventing backbone; Evolve the quota and entitlement system; Reduce time-to-first-GPU by hardening onboarding flows; Extend the resource management layer for new infrastructure offerings; Contribute to architectural decisions for reliability and maintainability

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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