Senior Backend Engineer at Stability AI

**Who this is for** This position is for an experienced backend engineer looking to build scalable, high-performance API services that power real-world AI and m

Work type: remote

Location: United States

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This position is for an experienced backend engineer looking to build scalable, high-performance API services that power real-world AI and multimodal applications. **Key highlights** You will work in a fully remote environment to design public-facing APIs, optimize database performance, and maintain production-grade telemetry for generative AI services. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 5+ years of experience in designing distributed services in a high-scale production environment. - Are highly proficient in Python and TypeScript and familiar with Kubernetes or cloud infrastructure. - Have at least 2 years of direct experience building production-ready AI/ML backend applications. - Enjoy collaborating with product and research teams to solve performance bottlenecks and improve system reliability.

Job Description

Distributed Systems Backend Engineer

We are looking for highly skilled Backend Engineers to rapidly deliver REST APIs and applications that leverage our models to provide delightful, multi-modal customer experiences. We are hiring at multiple career levels, including team lead positions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement public REST APIs and services, including data storage and ML backend services.

• Write clean and extensible Python and Typescript code with production-grade telemetry, scalability, debuggability and security best practices.

• Design and implement efficient database schemas for user preferences, subscription and billing management, content history management optimized for low latency responses.

• Work closely with product management, design, research, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality and user-friendly products

• Identify performance bottlenecks in services and apis. Deliver optimized solutions to address them.

• Participate in on-call, incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.

• 5+ years in designing and building REST APIs and distributed services for enterprise and consumer products in a high scale environment.

• 2+ years of experience working with production AI/ML applications.

• Demonstrated experience in building robust backend services on Kubernetes/AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Highly proficient in Python, TypeScript.

• Experience with Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres and NoSQL databases preferable.

• Proficiency in writing comprehensive technical documentation (API documentation, design documents).

• Experience in streaming multi-modal content (audio and video) is desirable but not required.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.

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