Backend Engineer

Together AI/Codesandbox is looking for a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems engineer to help build and maintain the codebase that powers the Together AI Sandbox service. The role is focused on backend architecture, database design, and writing well-tested code for high-performance services.

• Design core, backend software components
• Perform architecture and research work for AI workloads
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Create services, tools and developer documentation
• Create testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance
• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

• 5+ years experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field
• Demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems like storage, search, and computation
• Expert level programmer in Golang, Java, Rust, or C/C++
• Demonstrated experience with relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational databases (ClickHouse, Redis)
• Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Excellent understanding of operating system concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage
• Experience with Kubernetes/Nomad and containers is a plus
• Experience with virtual machines, microVMs, or sandboxing technologies (gVisor, Firecracker, QEMU) is a plus

• Competitive compensation
• Startup equity
• Other competitive benefits