Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer (AI/Backend): Building an Agentic Data Platform for an AI-powered electric grid with an accent on LLM-enabled semantic ingestion, enrichment, and discovery of multi-modal data. Focus on designing massive-scale secure data infrastructure, low-latency streaming, and integrating AI-driven simulations for global power grids.

Location: Hybrid (NYC or Mountain View, CA)

Salary: $262,000 - $369,000 base

Company

Tapestry (part of Alphabet's hirify.global) is building an AI-powered electric grid to make energy systems more visible, reliable, and clean on a global scale.

What you will do

• Design and implement massive-scale, secure, enterprise-grade data infrastructure and backend services for the Agentic Data platform.
• Develop LLM-enabled semantic ingestion, enrichment, and retrieval systems for multi-modal data.
• Build low-latency streaming infrastructure for large-scale data processing to support AI-driven simulations.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, power systems ehirify.globalperts, and PMs to translate complehirify.global requirements into real-world products.
• Implement protection mechanisms for sensitive grid data to meet governance and compliance standards.
• Coordinate with technical leads to migrate services to the new Data Platform with zero downtime.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-8 years of ehirify.globalperience building enterprise-grade complehirify.global software systems.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language (Java/Kotlin or Golang preferred).
• Ehirify.globalperience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, gRPC, event-driven design, and Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Ehirify.globalperience managing multi-modal data including blobs, structured data, and free-form tehirify.globalt.
• Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP cloud monitoring.

Nice to have

• Hands-on ehirify.globalperience with Google Cloud Platform (preferred), AWS, or Azure.
• Background in power systems or electric grid technologies.
• Ehirify.globalperience with data governance, data protection, or zero-trust security models.
• Ehirify.globalperience building full-stack applications with frameworks such as Angular.
• Ehirify.globalperience working in high-growth or "zero-to-one" environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and bonus packages.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Generous PTO and a flehirify.globalible hybrid work model.
• 401(k) with employer contribution.
• Professional development opportunities within an Alphabet-backed environment.