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Senior Backend Engineer

$220k - $300k
Full-time

Wintermeyer Ventures

About the Role

Join a small engineering team at an AI data infrastructure company to build and operate backend systems that prepare sensitive enterprise data for AI training. You will help ensure high-volume data pipelines are reliable auditable and safe to recover when failures occur.

What Youll Do

  • Build and scale multi-stage pipelines that de-identify enterprise data from communication email document code and project management sources.
  • Own backend systems from design and delivery through debugging correctness checks and recovery.
  • Make retries checkpoints partial failures replay backfills and rollbacks safe across asynchronous workflows batch workers queues and object storage.
  • Build internal tools and dashboards to monitor pipeline performance investigate data quality and support release decisions with queryable provenance.
  • Work with machine learning full-stack platform and security teammates to support new data types and pipeline capabilities.

What Were Looking For

  • 3 to 10 years of software engineering experience including personal ownership of production backend systems.
  • Experience building and operating high-volume data processing systems that transform data not only move it between systems.
  • Strong distributed and asynchronous systems fundamentals including queues workers concurrency idempotency retries and recovery from partial failures.
  • Backend depth and strong experience in a general-purpose language such as Python Go Rust or Java.
  • Experience with AWS and batch or workflow orchestration. Relevant technologies include Airflow AWS Batch SQS S3 DynamoDB and PostgreSQL.
  • Meaningful early-stage or high-growth startup experience a STEM undergraduate degree and a track record of ownership and progression.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $220000 to $300000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in New York New York United States.

Vacancy posted 27 days ago
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