Backend Engineer

MetAntz3 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, United States
Remote
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years backend engineering experience with distributed systems
  • Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or similar backend languages
  • Experience with resource scheduling, orchestration, and API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
  • Understanding of hardware constraints and system optimization
  • Linux systems knowledge and containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Comfortable working with expensive resources where efficiency directly impacts costs
  • Excited about solving novel problems in AI infrastructure (not just another CRUD app)
  • Startup mindset—comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration
  • Knowledge of Mandarin

Required Skills

AI Infrastructure
Containerization
Resource Scheduling
Docker
API Design
gRPC
GraphQL
REST
Kubernetes
Linux
Problem-Solving
Python
Startup Mindset
Orchestration
Mandarin
Go
Distributed Systems