Senior Backend Engineer, Together AI
Together Cloud
2 days a week in office
Cloud platform for building generative AI
Be an early applicant
Cloud platform for building generative AI
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices
- Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
- Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members
- Demonstrated experience with building and operating high-performance and/or globally distributed microservice architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage, including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scale
- Experience developing against and managing a relational database, such as PostgreSQL
- Expert-level programmer in one or more of programming language (Golang preferred)
- Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Kubernetes and containers preferred
- Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building the next generation AI cloud platform – a highly available, global, blazing-fast cloud infrastructure that virtualizes cutting-edge ML hardware (GB200s/GB300s, BlueField DPUs) and enables state-of-the-art ML practitioners with self-serve AI cloud services, such as on-demand + managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters
- This platform serves both our internal SaaS products (inference, fine-tuning) and our external cloud customers, spanning dozens of data centers across the world
- Work on a distributed GPU scheduling system for the on-demand clusters product, Instant Clusters
- Build out a global management plane for managing our data center compute, networking, and storage
- Design and build new customer-facing cloud platform services, delivering killer enterprise AI cloud features
- Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Together’s commerce platform
- Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure
- Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs
- Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems
- Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance
- Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents when necessary
Our take
Founded in 2022, Together AI is a research-driven AI company that operates a cloud platform for building and running generative AI. The company also contributes to open-source research, models and datasets to advance the use of machine learning.
Together AI's platform enables developers, researchers and businesses to train, fine-tune and deploy generative AI for their needs. With Generative AI gaining a lot of attention recently, the company has some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT, but its focus on research makes it stand out.
The company has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to expand its AI Acceleration Cloud product and prepare a large deployment of its GPUs, all while securing its position as an open-source model-building platform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2025
$305m
SERIES B
Mar 2024
$106m
SERIES A
Total funding: $533.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health insurance plans
- Dental and vision insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
- Mental health support and services
- Income protection & retirement
- 401(k) plan
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- STD & LTD insurance
- Monthly team lunches
- Flexible time off policy
- Team-driven celebrations and events
- Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ce Zhang
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vipul Ved Prakash
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.
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