Zuma
Staff Engineer (Backend, DevOps, Infrastructure)
San Francisco Bay Area · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 383 days ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsBackend DevelopmentAWSGCPCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDDevOpsAPI DevelopmentLLMsAgentic AIProduct StrategyTest AutomationCommunication
About the role
- About Zuma Zuma is pioneering the future of agentic AI and our focus is to transform the rental market experience for consumers and property manager alike.
- Off the back of our Series-A in early 2024, Zuma is scaling rapidly.
- Achieving our vision requires a team of passionate, innovative individuals eager to leverage technology to redefine customer-business interactions.
Responsibilities
- Proven expertise in backend development with Node.js, including API design, system architecture, and cloud-based services
- Familiarity with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices
- Our innovative platform is engineered from the ground up to boost operations efficiency and enhance support capabilities for property management business across the US and Canada, a ~$200B market.
- We're on the hunt for exceptional talent ready to join our mission and contribute to building a groundbreaking technology that reshapes how businesses engage with customers.
- Help define how humans collaborate with intelligent systems in one of the largest and most underserved industries in the world: property management.
- This is a rare opportunity to influence how an entire industry evolves, building tools that transform repetitive operational tasks into seamless, intelligent experiences.
- We're not just building software we're designing AI that people want to work with.
- Join us to help lead the AI revolution in multifamily, drive meaningful real-world impact, and be part of reimagining what work can feel like when done side-by-side with intelligent agents.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade software systems, with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and deploying production systems using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
- Hands-on experience with database design, performance tuning, and scaling high-throughput data systems
Nice to have
- Experience with React and TypeScript on the frontend, though this role leans backend/infrastructure
- Computer and workspace enhancements.
- Company off-sites with the team.
Benefits
- Bonus: Experience with React and TypeScript on the frontend, though this role leans backend/infrastructure
- Bonus: Exposure to LLM-based systems, AI infrastructure, or agentic AI workflows
- Our definition of done includes: test coverage, performance checks, basic observability, and internal docs.
This listing is sourced directly from Zuma's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.