Senior Backend Engineer

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Early From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Backend Engineer San Francisco, California, United States Summary: As a Senior Backend Engineer , you will design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our creative brainstorming and creation products. You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based image and video creation / editing tools. You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our AWS infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with Postgres, Redis, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic. You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We're looking for full-time hires in our San Francisco office. Required Experience: - Experience developing scalable services using Python, using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic - Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS - Experience working with relational databases - At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services Nice to have: - Experience building high availability services using CI/CD, full ranges of test validation approaches, monitoring and alerting - Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT - Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers - Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, Cloudflare - Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka - Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems - Experience with

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