Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)

BJAK
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Backend","APIs","Monitoring","Logging","Incident response","Latency optimization","Distributed systems","Production software","Docker","Kubernetes"]

Backend Engineer for an AI product building and operating production AI systems. Owns the inference and orchestration layer between models and users, focusing on low latency, high reliability, and cost efficiency. You’ll design inference pipelines, manage service boundaries around models, and ensure production readiness through monitoring, logging, and incident response.

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BJAK
BJAK
4 months ago

Backend Engineer, AI (Agent Systems)

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Job Summary

Backend Engineer for an AI product building and operating production AI systems. Owns the inference and orchestration layer between models and users, focusing on low latency, high reliability, and cost efficiency. You’ll design inference pipelines, manage service boundaries around models, and ensure production readiness through monitoring, logging, and incident response.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and operate production systems that serve AI-powered features in production.
  • •Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models.
  • •Maintain production concerns: monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
  • •Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming.
  • •Collaborate to ensure stable APIs and seamless integration with frontend and ML systems.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
  • •Experience running high-throughput, low-latency services.
  • •Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal).
  • •Comfortable debugging distributed systems under load.
  • •Bias toward shipping and learning from production behavior.
Experience:AI
Skills:BackendAPIsMonitoringLoggingIncident responseLatency optimizationDistributed systemsProduction softwareDockerKubernetes
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonNodeJsPytorchOpenAIAnthropicSQLNoSQLKubernetesDocker

Company Brief

BJAK
Bjak is a Malaysia-based insurtech that operates an online insurance comparison and distribution platform across SEA, simplifying purchase and servicing of motor and life insurance using digital tools and AI-enabled services.
Industry: InsurTech
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Selangor, Malaysia
Founded: 2019
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