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Senior Backend Engineer

Palo Alto🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$200,000🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and build scalable backend systems powering observability, architecture modeling, and AI-driven recommendation engines for a cloud-native platform.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (distributed systems & ML infrastructure)

Builds

Intelligent backend systems, data pipelines, microservices, and observability layers

Domain

Cloud-native architecture intelligence, distributed systems, ML infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Go or Python, distributed systems, microservices, data pipelines, observability, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, LLM integration, fault-tolerant workflows, performance tuning, technical architecture design

Preferred skills

0-to-1 product experience, AI-assisted development tools, cloud architecture optimization

Technologies

Go, Python, microservices, LLMs, DevOps tools, IaC

Responsibilities

Design scalable backend systems, embed LLM-based intelligence, build services for architecture pattern identification, implement monitoring and fault-tolerant workflows, collaborate cross-functionally to translate requirements, share learnings to strengthen engineering culture

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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