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Senior Backend Engineer – AI/LLM Agents

Redwood City, California, United StatesHybridContractSenior$100–$100 /hrPosted 1 month ago

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Senior Backend Engineer - AI/LLM Agents

Work Authorization: MUST be USC OR Green Card Holder only preferred but any visa is okay.
Location: 3 days a week on site in the Redwood City, CA area ( Tuesday- Thursday)

Contract Length: 2 Years

Mode of interview: 2 Virtual interviews.

Minimum years of experience: 7 Years experience

Interview process: 2 rounds virtual 1 round in person
Candidate pay: $100/HR

Job Description:

Send Candidates who have strong AI/LLM and backend developer experience

  • LLM product experience: prompting, tool calling, evals, latency/cost tradeoffs.
  • Agent architectures: planning/execution loops, memory/state, sandboxed tools, HITL, safety constraints.
  • Frameworks/SDKs: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain/LangGraph, Anthropic Agents, OpenAI tool calling, sandboxed runtimes.
  • Infra familiarity: Kubernetes, serverless, stream processing, feature stores, vector search.

Job Description:

The Role

You’ll own the backend systems that make AI agents reliable in production: agent runtime services, integrations, data modeling, observability, and platform reliability. You’ll design, ship, measure, and harden systems that power real customer workflows at scale.

What You’ll Do

  • Own agent runtime services: tool execution, state management, orchestration, retries/idempotency, rate limiting.
  • Design APIs & contracts: stable, versioned internal/external APIs, webhooks/events, integration adapters.
  • Model complex domain data: schemas for agent memory/state, workflow history, audit trails, permissions, multi-tenant isolation.
  • Build integrations at scale: OAuth, webhooks, sync engines, connectors with robust observability and failure handling.
  • Reliability engineering: define SLIs/SLOs, implement tracing, timeouts, circuit breakers, budgets, and incident response.
  • Performance & cost controls: optimize latency/throughput, queues, caches, storage; manage inference/tool-call costs and runaway tasks.
  • Raise the bar: code quality, testing strategy, on-call hygiene, runbooks, postmortems, mentoring.

What We’re Looking For (Required)

  • 6+ years building backend systems for production SaaS, platforms, or distributed systems.
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, queues/workers, caching, and production ops.
  • Data modeling depth: relational design (Postgres/MySQL), migrations, indexing, query optimization, data correctness.
  • API design excellence: clear, evolvable contracts across internal services and external partners.
  • Thrive in high-velocity environments without compromising reliability/security.
  • Ownership mindset: build ship operate; comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration.
  • LLM product experience: prompting, tool calling, evals, latency/cost tradeoffs.
  • Agent architectures: planning/execution loops, memory/state, sandboxed tools, HITL, safety constraints.
  • Frameworks/SDKs: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain/LangGraph, Anthropic Agents, OpenAI tool calling, sandboxed runtimes.
  • Infra familiarity: Kubernetes, serverless, stream processing, feature stores, vector search.
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