Backend​/Platform Engineer

Radix Ark is looking for a Backend/Platform Engineer to build the API layer, control plane, and platform services that power SGLang and Miles in production. You'll design and implement the REST/gRPC APIs, authentication systems, multi-tenancy isolation, and monitoring infrastructure that thousands of developers and companies rely on. This role bridges high-performance inference/training systems with production-grade platform engineering.

4+ years experience building production backend systems, APIs, or platform infrastructure

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience

Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust with production-quality code standards

Experience designing and building REST/gRPC APIs at scale

Solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, caching, and message queues

Experience with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and multi-tenancy

Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Data Dog)

Understanding of ML serving infrastructure or high-throughput systems is a plus

Design and build production APIs for SGLang and Miles: REST/gRPC endpoints, client SDKs, API versioning

Implement authentication, authorization, and rate limiting systems for multi-tenant deployments

Build control plane infrastructure: job scheduling, resource allocation, model deployment management

Create monitoring, logging, and observability systems for production inference and training workloads

Design and implement billing integration, usage tracking, and quota management

Build management dashboards and admin tools for cluster operations

Ensure API reliability, performance, and security at scale

Implement multi-tenancy isolation and security boundaries

Create deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, and rollback procedures

Write comprehensive API documentation and integration guides

Partner with Systems Engineers to optimize end-to-end latency from API → serving layer

Debug production issues and implement reliability improvements

Radix Ark is an infrastructure-first company built by engineers who've shipped production AI systems, created SGLang (20K+ Git Hub stars, the fastest open LLM serving engine), and developed Miles (our large-scale RL framework). We're on a mission to democratize frontier-level AI infrastructure by building world-class open systems for inference and training. Our team has optimized kernels serving billions of tokens daily, designed distributed training systems coordinating 10,000+ GPUs, and contributed to infrastructure that powers leading AI companies and research labs.

We're backed by well-known investors in the infrastructure field and partner with Google, AWS, and frontier AI labs. Join us in building infrastructure that gives real leverage back to the AI community.

We offer competitive compensation with equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible work arrangements. Compensation is determined by location, level, and experience.

Radix Ark is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.