Senior Software Engineer, Backend (AI Agent Runtime)
Core
Design and operate the stateful, low-latency runtime that powers voice and chat AI agents, solving distributed systems problems and building a function execution platform.
Role type
Senior IC backend infrastructure engineer (AI agent runtime)
Builds
Real-time AI agent infrastructure, distributed session management, and serverless-style function execution platforms
Domain
AI infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, Go, distributed systems (consistency, fault tolerance, state management, concurrency), Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling (CLIs, SDKs), production ownership
Preferred skills
real-time voice or streaming media systems, LLM integration (streaming inference, prompt orchestration), serverless or function-as-a-service platforms, workflow engines (Temporal, Argo, Airflow), conversational AI or speech domains, Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows
Technologies
Python, Go, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Design and operate stateful, low-latency runtime for voice and chat AI agents; manage distributed session affinity, checkpointing, and crash recovery; build orchestration and autoscaling for custom logic execution; develop CLI tools and local development environments; drive observability and incident response
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
