Is the Backend Engineer role remote?

It's hybrid — Together AI expects some on-site time in Amsterdam.

How much experience is required?

At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Backend Engineer role.

Where is the role based?

Together AI is hiring for this position in Amsterdam.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: QEMU, Nomad, Firecracker, Golang, AI/ML, Elixir.

What seniority level is this role?

Together AI targets senior candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Backend Engineer role at Together AI.

Backend Engineer at Together AI - Joblaze

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Senior Backend Engineer at Together AI focuses on designing and maintaining the backend architecture that supports the Together AI Sandbox service, ensuring high performance and reliability. Proficiency in languages like Golang, Java, or Rust, along with experience in building distributed systems and working with various databases, is essential. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong technical background who thrive in collaborative environments. Together AI emphasizes innovation in AI infrastructure, making it a dynamic place for those passionate about cutting-edge technology.

Joblaze insights

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Quick facts

Is the Backend Engineer role remote?: It's hybrid — Together AI expects some on-site time in Amsterdam.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Backend Engineer role.
Where is the role based?: Together AI is hiring for this position in Amsterdam.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: QEMU, Nomad, Firecracker, Golang, AI/ML, Elixir.
What seniority level is this role?: Together AI targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Backend Engineer role at Together AI.

From the original posting

About the role

Together AI/Codesandbox is looking for a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems engineer to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers the Together AI Sandbox service. This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, database design, and high-performance backend services. Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so a key part of the role is experience and commitment to writing easily understood and well-tested code. You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs.

Location: Hybrid in Amsterdam, or Open to Relocation in the Netherlands
Full-time: This means 40 flexible hours, Monday through Friday.

Responsibilities

Design core, backend software components
Perform architecture and research work for AI workloads
Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations
Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
Conduct design and code reviews
Create services, tools and developer documentation
Create testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance
Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Requirements

5+ years experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems like storage, search, and computation
Expert level programmer in one or more of Golang, Java, Rust, or C/C++
Demonstrated experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and non-relational (e.g., ClickHouse, Redis) databases
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
Experience with Kubernetes/Nomad and containers is a plus
Experience with virtual machines, microVMs, or sandboxing technologies (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, QEMU) is a plus
Experience with Ceph is a plus
Experience with Elixir is a plus

About Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers and engineers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, and other competitive benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.