Principal Cloud Backend Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal or Senior Principal Cloud Backend Engineer to architect and build the core platform that powers our large-scale AI inference services, with a critical focus on enabling flexible billing and monetization strategies.

Requirements

• 10 + years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on designing and building large-scale, distributed backend systems in cloud environments.
• 5 + years in a Principal or Lead Engineer role, with a proven track record of architecting, delivering, and operating business-critical platforms.
• Expert proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Rust and C++. Deep understanding of concurrency, performance optimization, and systems programming.
• Deep, hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) and major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Extensive experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis) and designing data models for high-throughput, low-latency applications.
• Strong foundation in API design (REST, gRPC), event-driven architecture, and building resilient microservices.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive technical consensus and articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including base salary, plus equity and benefits.
• 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
• Full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.