Software Engineer - Senior Backend

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ABOUT THE JOB We believe using large language and multimodal models should be as simple as calling an API. To achieve this in production, we need to serve enterprises across clouds, with authentication, billing, multi-tenant isolation, and zero tolerance for downtime. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is excited by the full breadth of what it takes to run a platform in production. You will own the business logic layer that sits between our inference engine and every customer who relies on it. Your work spans API engineering, service development, and data architecture. If you like solving problems that only reveal themselves in the wild, this is your role: edge cases in multi-cloud orchestration, enterprise requirements that don’t fit neatly into a spec, performance bottlenecks that are hard to reproduce. You will move across domains, make decisions under uncertainty, and build systems that work cleanly, reliably, and at scale. We are looking for people with a track record of owning complex systems in production and solving unique problems. A great candidate is a strong collaborator who enjoys solving complex architectural challenges, cares deeply about developer…