Staff Software Engineer - Backend (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; on-site

Base salary: $200,000–$300,000 per year; stock options may be offered in addition.

Company

Deploy is an AI intelligence infrastructure platform providing open-source and proprietary model inference, content safety, deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP and publicity protection solutions.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and improve backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task and job processing systems.
• Write and maintain scalable, performant, secure, and reusable code across platforms.
• Contribute to product and core backend improvements by proposing and executing technical enhancements.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes, and security practices.
• Practice test-driven development, debug production issues across services and stack layers, and participate in on-call rotations as needed.
• Apply OWASP Top 10 techniques and data-handling best practices, follow information-asset protection policies, and report suspected security or policy violations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience building web applications.
• Experience successfully implementing highly available distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience delivering scalable backend APIs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias toward action.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on technical leadership experience, including leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous, high-impact problems.
• Interest and ability to learn additional programming languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI model infrastructure and products at production scale.
• Opportunity to launch new products and features and contribute directly to company development.
• Autonomous work in a fast-growing AI startup environment with a steep learning curve.
• On-site work in San Francisco.
• Stock options may be offered in addition to base salary.