samsters

samsters

Senior Backend Engineer - Features Team

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
TypeScriptPythonNode.jsCode ReviewMongoDBAWSDockerGraphQLRESTMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationMentoring

About the role

  • You will work at the intersection of large-scale data systems and cutting-edge AI infrastructure, and your decisions will have a direct impact on system reliability and the quality of alerts delivered to users around the world.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and iterate on microservices and APIs consumed by the alert pipeline and samdesk applications
  • Design and document APIs for consumption by front-end teams and external integrations
  • Design and implement AI agents that coordinate LLM inference with our real-time data pipeline
  • Build and maintain the orchestration layer governing how language models interact with structured pipeline outputs
  • Architect and deliver internal tools used by operations, ML, and QA teams to monitor, debug, and improve alert quality
  • Identify gaps in developer and analyst workflows and build solutions that meaningfully reduce toil

Requirements

  • If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.

Nice to have

  • Experience with real-time data pipelines or event-driven architectures
  • Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks, observability tooling, or RAG architectures
  • Background in safety-critical or high-availability systems
  • Solid working knowledge of AWS services: ECS, SQS, S3, CloudWatch
  • Production experience with MongoDB and Apollo GraphQL
  • You'll Thrive Here If
  • You have strong opinions, loosely held.
  • You argue for the right solution, not your solution

Benefits

  • Report on health of key system components

Company info

  • Samdesk is a global disruption monitoring platform delivering real-time crisis alerts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, powered by AI. We make sense of the world's most valuable real-time data sources with a singular purpose: to create a safer world. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with team members distributed around the globe, we work with some of the largest brands in the world - including DoorDash, Meta, Uber, Ford, and NATO. We are a growing team of builders and problem-solvers who are deeply passionate about the products and services we create.
  • Check us out! www.samdesk.io
  • About the Role
  • The Senior Backend Engineer on the Features Team plays a pivotal role in building the apps and API's that our customers use to access Samdesk's automated alert pipeline data. You will be architecting and building the systems that bridge a firehose of data into customer relevant information.
  • Samdesk is a global disruption monitoring platform delivering real-time crisis alerts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, powered by AI.
  • We make sense of the world's most valuable real-time data sources with a singular purpose: to create a safer world.
  • Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with team members distributed around the globe, we work with some of the largest brands in the world - including DoorDash, Meta, Uber, Ford, and NATO.
  • We are a growing team of builders and problem-solvers who are deeply passionate about the products and services we create.
  • The Senior Backend Engineer on the Features Team plays a pivotal role in building the apps and API's that our customers use to access Samdesk's automated alert pipeline data.
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