Senior Backend Engineer - Java, Rust, Go

Job Description

Together AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Amsterdam. This role is pivotal in building and maintaining the codebase that powers our Together Cloud inference and fine-tuning services. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing core backend software components, performing architecture and research work for AI workloads, and interfacing with other teams to incorporate their innovations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and Develop: Create core backend software components and services that are robust and scalable.
• Architecture and Research: Conduct architecture and research work to support AI workloads.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the product team to understand and document functional needs, and interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations.
• Code Quality: Write high-performance, well-tested, production-quality code.
• System Analysis: Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.
• Code Reviews: Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code quality and robustness.
• Documentation: Create developer documentation and testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance.
• On-call Rotation: Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production-quality code.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Technical Skills: Expert level programming skills in one or more of Golang, Java, Rust, or C/C++.
• System Design: Experience in building large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Operating Systems: Excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, and storage.
• Additional Skills: Experience with Kubernetes, containers, or AI is a plus. Familiarity with Pytorch or Tensorflow is also beneficial.

About Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We are committed to open and transparent AI systems that drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society. Our team has contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI. Join us in our mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, and other competitive benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level, and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are proud to offer equal employment opportunities to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Join us in building the next generation AI infrastructure and be part of a passionate group of researchers and engineers.