Senior Backend Engineer - AI Agents Team (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer - AI Agents Team (Python/AI): Building scalable backend services and production-grade agentic AI systems for enterprise security operations with an accent on LLM integrations, retrieval architectures, and distributed cloud infrastructure. Focus on designing multi-agent workflows, optimizing vector and embedding pipelines, and ensuring reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency at scale.

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

Company

hirify.global develops Surf AI, an agentic operations platform that helps enterprise security teams identify and remediate risks across identity, cloud, HR, IT, and SaaS systems.

What you will do

• Design and develop scalable backend services for the Surf AI agentic platform.
• Build production-ready retrieval and embedding pipelines integrating vector databases and large language models.
• Implement performant, observable, and secure microservices in a Kubernetes-based environment.
• Collaborate with data science and AI research teams to operationalize LLM and agent-based features.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cost for large-scale distributed workloads.
• Maintain code quality, test coverage, and continuous deployment practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience in production environments.
• Strong Python skills and solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and computer science fundamentals.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems with cloud-native technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience integrating LLMs and familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks.
• Strong communication skills, proactive ownership, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector, or Redis.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on foundational AI systems used in real enterprise security environments.
• Join a small, senior team with expertise in identity, security, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Opportunity to ship agentic AI into production with substantial ownership.
• Product backed by Accel, Cyberstarts, and Boldstart Ventures and deployed by Fortune 500 enterprises.