Member of Technical Staff, Backend Equity) at well-funded AI infrastructure startup

Job Title

Member of Technical Staff, Backend

$180k-$250k + Equity

Well-funded AI infrastructure startup

Join a high-growth team building the core infrastructure powering how modern AI applications process and understand documents. You will own the backend application platform, scaling ingestion systems and AI workflows across a modern Python and Kubernetes stack. This role offers high ownership, from prototyping new features to shipping production-ready APIs for millions of developers.

San Francisco, USA

• Build infrastructure at the forefront of the AI revolution, supporting a platform that processes over a billion documents for global enterprises.
• High-impact, "ship-from-scratch" environment where you go from prototype to production for a massive, open-source-first developer community.
• Well-funded Series A startup backed by top-tier VCs, offering a small-team culture with significant equity and high ownership.

• Design and scale backend systems for ingestion and AI processing using Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, and Temporal.
• Collaborate directly with customers to translate complex technical requirements into production-ready product features and core APIs.
• Shape the product roadmap and technical architecture for a platform serving both startups and Fortune 50 companies.

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping new products from the ground up.
• Proficiency in Python and experience managing complex distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and database performance.
• Strong interest in AI/LLM-native applications and the ability to work in a fast-paced, hybrid-friendly startup environment.