Senior Backend Engineer

Piramidal, Inc.•New York, NY

6d•$250,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

Piramidal is looking for a backend engineer to help build and scale the infrastructure behind our real time neural monitoring platform. You'll work on hard problems: high throughput streaming, real-time analytics, and hospital grade reliability. This is a full-time role based in our New York office (5 days a week), with required travel to client sites. Candidates must have US work authorization.

Requirements

5+ years of building and operating backend systems in production
You can own a problem from an ambiguous start to a running, monitored service, and you can explain your decisions verbally and in writing.
Real experience with event-driven or stream-processing systems: partitioning, checkpointing, backpressure, and at-least-once delivery.
Strong Python, including concurrency (threads vs. processes, asyncio) and testing.
Proficiency with containerization and orchestration, preferably using kubernetes.
Solid relational database skills, from schema design to query performance.

Nice To Haves

Go, especially for networked or low-latency services.
Azure: Event Hubs, Service Bus, Web PubSub, Blob Storage, AKS.
Apache Arrow, Parquet or other columnar formats.
Video streaming, storage, and processing
Systems where sub-second latency matters.
Data engineering or warehousing at scale.
Model serving (PyTorch)
Work in healthcare or other regulated software.

Responsibilities

Build and run Python and Go services that consume, transform, and serve real-time streams of neurological data.
Design, maintain, and improve data models, ingestion pipelines and retention for high frequency time series data, from raw neurological data, to all time series derived from it.
Build and extend the APIs behind clinical workflows.
Work with ML engineers to take models from research to production inference, and keep them running there.
Make the platform observable and dependable: metrics, alerting, capacity planning, and incident follow-up.
Help build software to the standards of a regulated medical device, including cybersecurity, traceability and change control.