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Backend Engineer

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Together AI logoTogether Ai · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Full-timeOn-site6d ago
DocumentationElixirJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLRedis
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Together AI/Codesandbox is looking for a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems engineer to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers the Together AI Sandbox service. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, database design, and high-performance backend services. Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so a key part of the role is experience and commitment to writing easily understood and well-tested code. You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs. Location: Hybrid in Amsterdam, and must have be based in the Netherlands or have the relevant visa to be based in the Netherlands without sponsorship. Full-time: This means 40 flexible hours, Monday through Friday.

Responsibilities

  • Design core, backend software components
  • Perform architecture and research work for AI workloads
  • Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations
  • Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
  • Conduct design and code reviews
  • Create services, tools and developer documentation
  • Create testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems like storage, search, and computation
  • Expert level programmer in one or more of Golang, Java, Rust, or C/C++
  • Demonstrated experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and non-relational (e.g., ClickHouse, Redis) databases
  • Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
  • Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
  • Experience with Kubernetes/Nomad and containers is a plus
  • Experience with virtual machines, microVMs, or sandboxing technologies (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, QEMU) is a plus
  • Experience with Ceph is a plus
  • Experience with Elixir is a plus
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Benefits

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, and other competitive benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.Equal OpportunityTogether AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.Flexible scheduleEquity / stock options

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