Staff Backend Engineer - job 1 of 4

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the long-term architecture for AI orchestration frameworks, agent-based workflows, and model lifecycle management
• Lead cross-functional delivery of AI features from proof of concept to production rollout
• Establish best practices for prompt engineering, evaluation, versioning, observability, and incident response for AI services

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, including LLM-driven systems in production
• Proven success leading architecture for business-critical services
• Deep knowledge of LLM integration patterns and agent frameworks
• Expertise in event-driven and streaming architectures
• Track record of driving cost optimization and observability for AI workloads