Senior Software Engineer - Backend

SeattleOn-siteFull-time

AI Summary

Design, implement, and improve backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion, and distributed task processing for an AI model inference platform.

About this role

About Deploy

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. For leading open source LLMs, Deploy operates an optimized model inference engine that keeps costs and latency low while maintaining high throughout. Deploy also offers a set of proprietary AI models that address challenges in content safety, AI & deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP & publicity protection. Trusted by the world's largest and most innovative organizations, Deploy's solutions unlock high-performance AI model inference at production scale.

Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.

About the Role

We are looking for developers who are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale. Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems

Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms

Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements

Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security

Practice test-driven development

Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues

Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities

Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role

Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets

Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Requirements

You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field

A minimum of 5 years of experience with building scalable web applications

You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js

You have designed and implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices

You have experience building platforms that expose scalable backend APIs

You have deep experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred

Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus

You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices

You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness

You are comfortable with ambiguity and scoping solutions with your teammates

You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Skills

Data IngestionDistributed SystemsMicroservicesMonitoring And AlertingNode.jsOWASPPostgreSQLREST APIScalable Backend APIsSecurityTask/job ProcessingTest-driven Development