Senior Software Engineer, Backend — AI Platform
NewsBreak•Mountain View, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
NewsBreak runs production AI agents today — they diagnose live incidents, analyze metrics, and triage user feedback. We’re now upgrading our backend architecture to be AI-native: systems designed so that agents, tooling, and engineers can all operate them safely. This is a hands-on engineering role — you’ll modernize live, high-traffic services behind NewsBreak’s recommendation serving at scale, with a dual mandate: roughly half your time advances the architecture, half ships business impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years backend
- strong Java
- Kubernetes and CI/CD
- Led backend architecture design — service boundaries, data flows, high-QPS systems — ideally in large-scale recommendation, search, or ads systems, and lived with the consequences.
- Refactored live production systems without breaking them: incremental migration, shadow verification, safe rollout are second nature.
- Rigorous about safety: you design for rollback and blast-radius control by default.
Nice To Haves
- LLM-agent / AIOps exposure
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture upgrade of our backend services — untangle legacy boundaries, define clean interfaces, build in first-class observability — and land it incrementally on live, high-QPS systems.
- Build the infrastructure that lets AI agents act safely in production.
- Automate high-toil engineering workflows into reliable, self-serve systems.
- Deliver backend capabilities for product initiatives (experiments, growth systems, serving changes) when the business needs them.
- Own reliability for what you build: observability, safe rollback, and lessons that feed the team’s knowledge base.
Benefits
- discretionary bonus
- options
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
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