Member of Technical StaffActive$175K–$220K

Fireworks AI
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The opportunity

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed,…

What you'll do

  • Architect and build scalable, resilient backend infrastructure to support: distributed training, inference, and data processing pipelines

  • Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and establish best: practices for large-scale machine learning systems

  • Design and implement core backend services with a focus on efficiency and low latency

  • Drive infrastructure optimization initiatives for compute cost, storage: lifecycle management, and network performance

  • Collaborate with machine learning, DevOps, and product teams to translate: research and product requirements into robust infrastructure solutions

  • Evaluate and integrate cloud-native and open-source technologies such as: Kubernetes, Ray, Kubeflow, and MLFlow to enhance platform reliability

What they're looking for

  • Own end-to-end systems from design to deployment, emphasizing reliability,: fault tolerance, and operational excellence
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field plus: four (4) years of experience in software engineering or related role
  • years of experience designing, building, and optimizing large-scale backend: infrastructure and distributed data systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka) in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or equivalent), including cloud-native platforms, core infrastructure components, and optimization techniques (caching, indexing, sharding, replication, transactions, ACID)
  • years of experience with major server-side programming languages and: frameworks (e.g., Python, C++, Go, TypeScript)