AI Platform Engineer, Backend

Role Overview

As a Backend Engineer at Brain Co., you'll own the systems that power our AI platform end-to-end, from architecture and design to deployment and maintenance. You'll build reliable, production-grade infrastructure for enterprise and government environments, solve complex problems from first principles, and work closely with teams across Product, ML, and Infrastructure.

What You Will Do

Own it end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, and long-term maintenance. Build for real environments, design modular, reusable APIs (REST, gRPC, event-driven) and backend architectures that meet enterprise and government uptime expectations.

Why It Might Be a Fit

3+ years building production systems with strong fundamentals in distributed systems and deep proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Rust, Python, or similar. Proven ability to design from first principles, with experience building shared infrastructure, internal platforms, or developer-facing services and strong intuition for DX and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

• 3+ years building production systems
• strong fundamentals in distributed systems
• deep proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Rust, Python, or similar
• proven ability to design from first principles
• experience building shared infrastructure, internal platforms, or developer-facing services
• strong intuition for DX and long-term maintainability
• experience owning services with real uptime responsibility
• familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and incident response
• track record designing, operating, and evolving APIs and services at scale

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Daily lunches
• Commuter benefits
• 401(k)
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Unlimited PTO