Software Engineer at OpenAlex
Core
Building and maintaining the backend infrastructure for a global open index of scholarly research, serving billions of API calls from universities, governments, and AI companies.
Role type
Senior IC backend software engineer
Builds
Scalable data pipelines and APIs for a scholarly research index
Domain
Academic research data + Cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
SQL, PySpark, Python, Flask, Elasticsearch, Cloudflare Workers
Preferred skills
AI-native development, autonomous engineering
Technologies
Databricks, Python, Flask, Elasticsearch, Cloudflare Workers
Responsibilities
Designing backend systems, building missing features, resolving tickets
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
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