Member of Technical Staff, Backend, AGI

Amazon•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

As a backend engineer on the team, you will build and operate core services that ingest, process, and distribute large-scale, multi-modal datasets to internal tools and data pipelines across the lab. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will ship a lot of code while defining backend architecture and operational standards across the platform. The platform is built primarily in TypeScript today, with plans to introduce Python services in the future. We are looking for someone who can balance rapid experimentation with operational rigor to build reliable services in a fast-moving research environment.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience building and operating backend services for fast-evolving, user-facing products.
Experience designing and evolving APIs that prioritize ergonomics and maintainability.
Demonstrated history of independently driving ambiguous, open-ended projects.

Nice To Haves

Experience operating at staff-level, or with significant cross-team technical influence.
Experience building high-throughput services that support complex query patterns.
Experience with TypeScript and/or Python backend development and toolchain.
Experience designing and operating services on AWS.
Experience working in startup or research environments with rapidly evolving requirements.

Responsibilities

Be highly productive in the codebase and drive the team’s engineering velocity.
Design and evolve backend architecture and interfaces for core services.
Define and own standards for production health, performance, and observability.
Collaborate directly with Research, Human Feedback, Product Engineering, and other teams to understand workflows and define requirements.
Write technical RFCs to communicate design decisions and tradeoffs across teams.
Own projects end to end, from technical design through long-term maintenance.
Raise the team’s technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.