Senior Backend Engineer – AI
Trust Lab
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Mateo • California • United States
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About the role
- Design and build extensible backend systems that support flexible configurations for different customers and content types.
- Develop infrastructure that interfaces cleanly with LLMs—enabling prompt engineering, context injection, and modular evaluation workflows.
- Build tooling and platforms that enable fast iteration by AI engineers and analysts, including declarative pipelines, parameterized jobs, and reproducible experiments.
- Prioritize ease of deployment, integration, and testing—both for internal teams and external partners.
- Collaborate closely with product, data, and policy teams to translate nuanced safety needs into scalable, maintainable software systems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in backend systems or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent.
- Experience designing scalable APIs, backend systems and data pipelines.
- Familiarity with LLM-based systems (e.g., prompt management, context formatting, batch inference, prompt-tuning workflows).
- Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Lambda, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines).
- Passion for building systems that unlock velocity and experimentation for cross-functional teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits
- Hybrid in-office policy
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
backend systemsinfrastructure engineeringsoftware engineeringPythonGoJavaAPIsdata pipelinesLLM-based systemscloud-native infrastructure
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitypassion for experimentation