Siftstack
Software Engineer, Backend (Agentic AI)
- Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
- $160k–$200k
- Mid level
- Full-time
- Remote · San Francisco, CA
- 3+ yrs exp
- Added 2 months ago
About this role
Sift is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build and operate AI agents that transform telemetry data into engineering insights for hardware teams. This role offers significant product ownership and involves direct customer interaction to design, implement, and maintain scalable agentic systems. You'll be instrumental in building the infrastructure supporting these agents, ensuring their dependability and performance.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with product to translate customer workflows into agent capabilities.
- Design and build agentic systems for large-scale time-series data.
- Develop robust tool interfaces and secure code execution environments for agents.
- Construct scalable distributed systems for long-running agent workloads.
- Design and implement APIs to power agentic features.
- Build evaluation suites to measure agent effectiveness and production quality.
What they're looking for
- Go, Python, or Rust
- Distributed Systems
- Kubernetes
- Time-Series Data
- Agentic Systems
- Product Ownership
- gRPC
Benefits
- Equity
- Opportunity to evolve a scaling platform
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Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience building APIs and backend services. What technologies have you used?
- Explain your understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and how they apply to agentic workloads.