Senior AI Engineer (Backend - Python)

TL;DR

Senior AI Engineer (Backend - Python): Building centralized reliability command center, AI agents for incident triage, root-cause analysis, and developer-facing APIs with an accent on distributed systems, platform engineering, and AI-assisted development. Focus on architecting scalable data-intensive applications, leveraging LLMs for automation and decision support, and owning end-to-end projects from requirements to rollout.

Company

hirify.global empowers world-class engineers to create meaningful impact through high-quality software, modern engineering practices, and partnerships with leading global organizations to solve complex challenges.

What you will do

• Build centralized reliability command center providing unified view of health, risk, and reliability across services and environments.
• Create AI agents supporting incident triage, root-cause analysis, log/trace summarization, and suggested next actions.
• Develop developer-facing features and APIs to enable data exploration, debugging, and informed decision-making.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Claude, and Copilot to prototype, refactor, and ship features rapidly.
• Own projects end-to-end, including requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, data, and SRE teams to address pain points and deliver engineering solutions.

Requirements

• 5–7 years in backend or full-stack engineering building and operating complex production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python for architecting data-intensive applications and scalable APIs.
• Ability to work from ambiguous requirements with strong problem-solving and product thinking.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot-like) to accelerate coding.
• Practical experience with LLMs or AI frameworks for automation, decision support, and developer workflows.

Nice to have

• Passion for combining distributed systems with modern AI/automation.
• Desire to build intuitive, powerful developer tools.
• High standards for reliability, maintainability, and code quality.