Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer

Fireworks AI Fireworks AI · Data AI · San Mateo, CA · Engineering

This role is for a backend software engineer focused on building the core infrastructure for a generative AI platform, including web applications, model orchestration, billing, APIs, and developer tooling. The role emphasizes platform engineering with product impact, working closely with various teams to ship end-to-end features and improve system reliability and performance. Experience with AI systems and a desire to build products in the AI space are required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build scalable backend services
  2. Own major product surfaces from architecture to production
  3. Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience
  4. Work directly with customers to understand pain points
  5. Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness

Skills

Required

  • backend services
  • architecture
  • production
  • reliability
  • performance
  • developer experience
  • customer interaction
  • enterprise features
  • AI tooling
  • AI systems

Nice to have

  • product
  • frontend
  • infra
  • GTM
  • systems thinking
  • tradeoffs
  • business impact
  • clean abstractions
  • ownership

What the JD emphasized

  • 2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models

Other signals

  • building the future of generative AI infrastructure
  • fastest and most scalable inference
  • multimodal models
  • platform engineering with product impact
  • work directly with customers to understand pain points
  • shipping enterprise-grade features