Emergent Labs
Software Engineer - Backend
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 hours ago
PythonDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIPlain Language
About the role
- As a Staff Engineer on Autonomous Systems, you will define the technical foundation for how AI agents reliably generate, test, and deploy production-grade software at global scale.
- This role exists for engineers who think in systems, care about correctness as much as speed, and want to solve problems that don't have playbooks.
Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure that supports millions of applications and real-time workloads, solving for latency, concurrency, and reliability at global scale.
- Collaborate deeply with AI/ML, infrastructure, and product teams to build end-to-end systems from model interaction layers to distributed execution engines.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency and parallelism, and system design under scale and failure.
- Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent.
- Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.
- Let's build the future of software together.
- Define how software gets built in the AI era, not optimize what already exists.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend or distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go.
- Proven track record of owning architecture for critical production systems, not just contributing to them.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or LLM-based systems is a strong plus.
Compensation
- Top-tier compensation and meaningful equity.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited Paid Time Off: take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed
- Flexible Working Hours: work arrangements that fit your life and commitments
- Top-tier compensation and meaningful equity.
- Benefits and Perks:
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure, event-driven systems, and data infrastructure is a bonus.
Company info
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