Staff Backend Engineer

Location: Must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate

Salary: $180,000 - $280,000

Inworld is building an intelligent runtime to transform static software into AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users.

Overview

You would join the team that builds and runs Inworld’s cloud-based services. This is an IC-focused role. We are looking for someone who loves direct technical contribution.

What you will do

• Collaborate with Product Managers, ML Engineers, QA and more to identify, refine, and prioritize impactful projects.
• Design, develop, test, and launch services, features and improvements.
• Add logging, monitoring, dashboards, alerts, docs and runbooks to the system.
• Be involved with scaling our services to handle increasing customer usage.

Requirements

• Excellent programming skills and experience in a statically typed backend programming language, preferably Go, Kotlin, Java or Rust.
• Experience developing and deploying cloud-based services to at least hundreds of qps.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• Hands-on experience with caching (Redis or Memcached), Queues/Pubsub/Messaging, data pipelines (Flink, Beam), and Cloud storage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, can collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineer with ease, trusted and well-regarded teammate.

Nice to have

• Experience with analytics or timeseries databases (ClickHouse, Timescale, InfluxDB).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry (both using, and implementing support for).
• Experience with C++.

Culture & Benefits

• Total compensation includes equity and benefits.