Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Back-End – Inference

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Enhance and expand the backend systems that support Model Vault, including areas such as authentication, authorization, deployment management, billing, metering, and customer lifecycle.

• Spearhead architectural projects focused on identity, payment systems, usage analytics, platform scalability, and the foundational elements of the core product.

• Develop dependable control-plane services for provisioning, configuring, scaling, and managing model deployments across various cloud and hardware platforms.

• Create APIs and distributed systems that ensure correctness, consistency, isolation, failure recovery, idempotency, and observability.

• Integrate security and privacy measures into the platform architecture through practices such as tenant isolation, least-privilege access, auditability, secrets management, encryption, and confidential computing boundaries.

• Tackle intricate challenges that encompass backend systems, cloud infrastructure, security, and AI inference.

• Oversee projects from inception to completion, including architecture design, threat modeling, implementation, rollout, production operations, and iterative improvements based on user workloads.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid backend engineering principles in distributed systems, databases, networking, operating systems, and security.

• Strong programming skills and hands-on experience in Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar languages.

• Proven experience in designing and managing production systems where correctness, availability, security, and performance are critical at scale.

• Exceptional systems-design capabilities, including but not limited to concurrency, consistency, caching, queues, rate limiting, backpressure, failure domains, idempotency, and graceful degradation.

• Comprehensive understanding of authentication, authorization, identity management, cryptography, secrets management, tenant isolation, and associated security risks.

• Comfortable collaborating across backend services, APIs, databases, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.

• Experience in debugging complex issues that span service or system boundaries.

• Production engineering experience that includes instrumentation, capacity planning, migrations, backward compatibility, incident response, and safe rollouts.

• Proven ability to transform technically challenging projects from initial ambiguity into reliable, production-grade systems.

• Capability to produce clean, maintainable, well-tested code while balancing simplicity, performance, and correctness.

🏝️ Benefits

• Offers equity.

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or its equivalent in local currency.

• Comprehensive health and dental coverage.

• Dedicated mental health budget.

• RRSP matching, 401K, and Pension Scheme.

• 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months for any parent.

• Annual enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement.

• Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.

• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days).

• Budget for travel to other offices for remote employees.

• Annual company offsite.

• Daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events for employees in the office.

• Co-working benefit for employees located away from an office.

• $500 home office stipend.