Senior Backend Engineer - AI Agents Platform

Location
Palo Alto
Workplace
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Compensation
$210k – $250k + equity
Visa
H-1B Transfer Only

About this role

We are looking for a mid-level or senior Backend Engineer with 3+ years of experience to join our AI Agents Platform team to help build our large-scale, highly reliable platform for vertical AI agents. We are seeking a product-minded engineer who is passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems and is excited to contribute to a platform that is revolutionizing an industry by deploying autonomous AI agents.

What you will do

  • Own core backend services: Build and operate the agent runtime services (tool execution, state management, orchestration, retries, idempotency, rate limiting).
  • Design robust APIs and contracts: Develop stable, well-versioned APIs (internal + external), including webhook/event interfaces and integration adapters.
  • Model complex domain data: Design schemas and data access patterns that support agent memory/state, workflow history, audit trails, permissions, and multi-tenant isolation.
  • Integrations at scale: Implement and maintain high-quality integrations (OAuth, webhooks, sync engines, connectors) with strong observability and failure handling.
  • Platform performance and cost control: Optimize throughput/latency, queue backlogs, caching, storage, and inference/tool-call costs; build guardrails for runaway tasks.
  • Reliability engineering: Define and improve SLIs/SLOs, implement end-to-end tracing, build safety rails (timeouts, circuit breakers, budgets), and run incident response.
  • Raise engineering standards: Drive code quality, testing strategy, on-call hygiene, runbooks, postmortems, and mentoring.

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