Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

About Deploy

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. For leading open source LLMs, Deploy operates an optimized model inference engine that keeps costs and latency low while maintaining high throughput. Deploy also offers a set of proprietary AI models that address challenges in content safety, AI & deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP & publicity protection. Trusted by the world's largest and most innovative organizations, Deploy's solutions unlock high-performance AI model inference at production scale.

Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.

About the Role

In order to execute our vision, we need to grow our team of best-in-class engineers. We are looking for developers who are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale. Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities - Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems

- Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms

- Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements

- Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security

- Practice test-driven development

- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

- Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues

- Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities

- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role

- Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets

- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Requirements - You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field

- You have a few years of experience building web applications

- You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js

- You have experience implementing highly-available distributed systems/microservices