Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic

Inflection

Palo Alto, California, United States
Base: $350,000 to $500,000; equity: meaningful equ...
On-site
10-15 years backend engineering experience
Production agentic ai system experience
Python postgres redis kubernetes proficiency
Inflection AI is a Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI through their product Pi

Job Summary

  • Inflection AI is a Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI through their product Pi.
  • The role involves designing and building backend systems that power agentic workflows in production, focusing on orchestration, memory, and tool integrations.
  • Employees receive a starting annual base salary between $350,000 and $500,000 along with equity, medical options, and unlimited paid time off.

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Inflection AI is a Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI through their product Pi.

Salary

Base: $350,000 to $500,000; Equity: Meaningful equity component included; Benefits: Diverse medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, unlimited PTO

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 10-15 years backend engineering experience
  • Production agentic AI system experience
  • Python Postgres Redis Kubernetes proficiency
  • LLM application patterns RAG tool use
  • Cloud infrastructure AWS GCP Azure

Nice-to-have

  • Agent orchestration frameworks LangGraph LlamaIndex
  • Streaming queueing vector data infrastructure
  • Customer-facing service on-call ownership
  • Open-source agent or LLM tooling contributions
  • Evaluation tooling LangSmith Braintrust

Key Requirements

  • 10-15 years of backend engineering experience
  • Shipping production agentic AI systems
  • Strong Python and database skills
  • Experience with major cloud providers

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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