Braintrust
Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 421 days ago
JavaScriptPythonGoRustNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisAWSDockerTerraformPrometheusGrafanaDatadogData EngineeringLLMs
About the role
- Under the hood, Braintrust is a real-time, high-availability data platform that operates in both SaaS and self-hosted environments.
- You'll help scale our ingestion pipelines, evolve our open source libraries, and ensure everything runs reliably, observably, and fast.
- If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy solving hard systems problems with a product mindset, we'd love to work with you.
Responsibilities
- As a backend engineer at Braintrust, you'll help build the core platform powering LLM-native development:
- Design and ship features that give users deep insight into their LLM usage and performance.
- Develop and evolve robust, efficient open source libraries for tracing and evaluating LLM calls inside customer applications. Check out our SDKs https://github.com/braintrustdata
- Build highly available real-time data pipelines to ingest, store, and query large volumes of structured and semi-structured AI usage data.
- Support for parsing and uploading attachments from LLM multimodal outputs into long term storage.
- Strong systems thinking: you've owned or contributed to infrastructure projects and know how to design for scale, uptime, and data integrity
- Comfortable with ambiguous problems and excited to partner across the company to ship impactful work
- Clear communicator who documents decisions, shares context, and helps lift the team
Requirements
- Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar) and a passion for making systems operable, available and rock solid.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible time off
- Competitive salary and equity
- Wifi & cellphone stipend
Company info
- Braintrust is the AI observability platform.
- By connecting evals and observability in one workflow, Braintrust gives builders the visibility to understand how AI behaves in production and the tools to improve it.
- Teams at Notion, Stripe, and Vercel use Braintrust to compare models, test prompts, and catch regressions - turning production data into better AI with every release.
- Integrate, proxy, cache, and collect data from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other major model providers that our customers rely on.
Equal opportunity
- Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Apply directly at Braintrust →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Braintrust immigration profile
This listing is sourced directly from Braintrust's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.