Backend Engineer, AI; Agent Systems

Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)

Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems) position that is fully remote.

As a Backend Engineer, AI, you own the inference and orchestration layer that powers every AI interaction in the product. Your work sits between models and users, where latency, correctness, reliability, and cost directly impact real-world experience.

You will build and operate production systems that turn model capability into fast, stable, observable APIs used across mobile and desktop clients.

• Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered features in production.
• Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models.
• Own production concerns: monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
• Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming.
• Ensure backend systems run reliably at scale, handling production AI traffic with low latency and high throughput.
• Make APIs stable, clear, and supportive of seamless integration with frontend and ML systems.
• Detect, diagnose, and resolve production incidents quickly, minimizing user impact.
• Use iterative improvements based on real usage to continuously increase system performance and reliability.

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
• Experience running high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal).
• Comfortable debugging distributed systems under load.
• Bias toward shipping and learning from production behavior.

• Python
• Node Js
• Pytorch
• OpenAI / Anthropic / open-source LLMs
• SQL & No
  
  SQL
• Kubernetes
• Docker

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Pay Range:
  Market Rate
• Location:
  
  Fully Remote

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