Sr Engineer (Backend)

We are looking for a senior Backend or API Platform Engineer to architect and scale the foundation that powers delightful developer experiences and production-grade AI systems.

Requirements

• Design and build the Menlo API Platform, focusing on high reliability, performance, and a world-class developer experience
• Develop intuitive APIs and SDKs that make it easy for developers to access and integrate multimodal AI capabilities
• Deploy and optimize AI/ML models into scalable, production environments, working closely with research and applied ML teams
• Manage and evolve a modern, cloud-native infrastructure stack, using Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools
• Ensure platform reliability, including designing and implementing telemetry, monitoring, alerting, autoscaling, failover, and disaster recovery mechanisms
• Contribute to developer and operations workflows, including CI/CD pipelines, release management, and on-call rotations
• Collaborate across teams to implement secure APIs with fine-grained access control, usage metering, and billing integration
• Continuously improve platform performance, cost-efficiency, and observability as we scale to serve millions of users worldwide