Senior Backend Engineer, Together AI
Commerce
$160-230k
+ Equity
Cloud platform for building generative AI
Open for applications
Cloud platform for building generative AI
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$160-230k
+ Equity
21-100 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 understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
- Expert-level programmer in one or more of Golang, Rust, Python, Java, or TypeScript
- Proficiency in writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, AWS CDK, or Pulumi
- Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with payment processors (e.g. Stripe) and billing systems a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes, or containers a plus
- 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
- This role is for someone who thrives on solving complex challenges in distributed systems, and has expertise in backend API services, relational databases, and event-driven architectures for a rapidly scaling and commerce-intensive company. You will work across cloud-native services and globally distributed data centers to deliver high-performance, reliable solutions
- 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 has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to develop its products to cater for larger organisations, as well as expanding its compute capacity across the world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$106m
SERIES A
Nov 2023
$102.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $228.5m
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 values
- Empower Innovation - Everything works best when we help the open-source community work better together
- Discover the magic - Our wonder, curiosity, and hope drive us to find ways to make everyone’s lives better
- Do more with less - We are optimizers, making the most with what we have and not taking more than what we need
- Open to any prompt - We don’t know what’s possible until we try
- Model stewardship - We build everything with the purpose of benefiting society
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ce Zhang
(CTO)Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vipul Ved Prakash
(CEO)Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.
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