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Senior Backend Engineer
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $166,000 - $248,850 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSDistributed SystemsKafkaKubernetesMongoDBPostgres
About the role
- Architect AI Agent Infrastructure
- Design agent runtime environments that orchestrate long-running tasks, decisions, and tools.
- Build modular systems for agent memory, contextual state handling, and secure API actions.
- Integrate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multi-agent planning, and vector store reasoning.
- Own the backend architecture behind Deal Intelligence pipelines.
- Ensure low-latency data access across MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Solr clusters.
- Define and meet scalability, uptime, observability, and security goals.
- Work closely with ML engineers to productionize agent behaviors.
- Integrate securely with Highspot’s permissioning, audit, and action layers.
- Partner with product designers and PMs to co-create novel agent UX flows.
- Lead postmortem reviews and build internal tools for debug-ability and traceability.
- Evolve our LLMOps playbooks and safety guards for scalable deployment.
Requirements
- 8+ years experience in backend systems development, including 3+ years in tech lead capacity.
- Proven track record building distributed systems at scale (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, async eventing).
- Strong system design skills across stateless orchestration, caching, multi-tenant scale.
- Experience working with AI agent infrastructure (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, etc.).
- Comfort designing tool-use protocols, memory chains, or agent routing logic.
- Excellent communicator and collaborator across product, design, ML, and infrastructure teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- 401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match
- Flexible PTO
- 8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week
- Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
- 18 weeks paid parental leave
- Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
- 2 volunteer days per year
- Commuting benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
backend systems developmentdistributed systemssystem designstateless orchestrationcachingmulti-tenant scaleAI agent infrastructuretool-use protocolsmemory chainsagent routing logic
Soft skills
excellent communicatorcollaborator
