CareerPlan

Staff Backend Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

San FranciscoFull-time2026-11-11 → 2026-11-12
Hybrid

Core

Build tooling and infrastructure for AI agents and data practitioners, including semantic search, retrieval systems, and SaaS sandbox environments.

Role type

Staff Backend Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Builds

AI agent configuration tools, semantic search/retrieval infrastructure, and stateful SaaS replicas for agent testing.

Domain

Data infrastructure + AI/LLM applications

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

distributed systems design, API development, asynchronous workflows, concurrency, system design, technical leadership, prototype-to-production execution, product instincts

Preferred skills

AI agent debugging/observability, vector search, data infrastructure (Kafka, Postgres, Spark)

Responsibilities

Design and implement backend systems and APIs for AI/data products, lead technical direction across teams, take prototypes to production, build reliable observable systems with clear failure handling.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence