Senior Backend Engineer

Sentient
Bangalore +1 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with deep cloud infrastructure and AI engineering experience, comfortable with building fault-tolerant systems and deploying AI workflows.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with extensive cloud infrastructure experience and a background in AI systems development
    — “Architect and manage robust performance-critical backend services on AWS and GCP”
  • Candidates with a history of deploying and maintaining scalable, secure cloud services
    — “Deploy services in accordance with security measures, including IAM, security groups, and encryption”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of autonomy and initiative in a fast-paced startup environment
    — “Problem-solving mindset to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced startup”
  • Candidates must be prepared to take ownership and drive action in a high-impact setting
    — “Embrace extreme ownership and bias for action”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with end-to-end AI workflows, especially fine-tuning and inference pipelines
    — “Design and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure end-to-end AI workflows for Sentient products”
  • Showcase mastery of Python and cloud-native technologies like AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions
    — “Demonstrated mastery of the Python programming language”
  • Demonstrate experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
    — “Expertise in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)”
  • Include examples of implementing REST and Websocket APIs for AI applications
    — “Implement and maintain REST and Websocket APIs to provide data to AI applications”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • AI infrastructure design
  • team leadership
Typical background
software engineeringcloud services

Skills & requirements

Required

AWS And GCP ServicesServerless ArchitecturesREST And Websocket Apis

Preferred

AI FrameworksCloud Security

Stack & domain

PythonAWSGCPDockerKubernetesTerraformGenerative AILlmsFine-tuningInference PipelinesMulti-agent SystemsProblem-solvingInnovationTeam CollaborationBackend EngineeringAI

About the role

Original posting from Sentient via Ashby

About Sentient

Sentient is advancing and empowering the development of open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI). We build research, products, and frameworks that help developers and researchers to push the boundaries of AI in the open. Our mission is to enable a future where the development of AGI is shaped by a broad community of contributors.

Backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Pantera, and Framework, we’re bringing together a team to tackle fundamental challenges in open-source AI. Join us to help build the tools and technology that make this future possible.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain fault-tolerant core infrastructure for the Sentient platform
  • Architect and manage robust performance-critical backend services on AWS and GCP
  • Implement serverless architectures and optimize cloud resource utilization
  • Implement and maintain REST and Websocket APIs to provide data to AI applications
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
  • Design and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure end-to-end AI workflows for Sentient products, including fine-tuning and inference pipelines for generative AI models
  • Design and implement custom AI agent frameworks and multi-agent systems from scratch
  • Deploy, test, and follow proper release management processes to drive end-to-end services from dev to UAT to production
  • Deploy services in accordance with security measures, including IAM, security groups, and encryption
  • Write comprehensive documentation to ensure reproducibility and transparency

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years hands-on experience in developing large applications and designing end-to-end infrastructure
  • Demonstrated mastery of the Python programming language
  • Expertise in a lot of the AWS and GCP services:
  • Compute: EC2, GCE, Lambda, Cloud Functions
  • Networking: VPC, Cloud VPN, Transit Gateway, Cloud Interconnect
  • Storage: S3, Cloud Storage, EBS, Persistent Disk
  • Databases: RDS, Cloud SQL, DynamoDB, Bigtable
  • Containerization: ECS, GKE, ECR, Container Registry
  • Serverless: Lambda, Cloud Functions, API Gateway, Cloud Run
  • Monitoring: CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, CloudTrail, Cloud Audit Logs
  • Expertise in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, Cloud Deployment Manager)
  • Understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, datasets, fine-tuning, and AI inference
  • Problem-solving mindset to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced startup
  • Passion for building revolutionary AI products

Values

  • Appreciate and pursue deep expertise
  • Embrace extreme ownership and bias for action
  • Want to take risks and act upon ambition with integrity and empathy
  • Pursue relentless innovation and experimentation
  • Invest in personal growth and team collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, equity, and insurance
  • Flexible PTO and WFH policy
  • Top-of-the-line engineers and technology
  • Opportunity to shape the direction of a pioneering open AI platform

Source: Sentient careers (Ashby)

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