Senior BackEnd Engineer

A defense-tech startup, building an AI-powered autonomous systems that connect cameras, sensors, and natural-language interfaces, is looking for a Senior Back End Engineer, with AI \ Computer Vision expertise. In this role, you’ll be one of our first engineers. You’ll shape architecture, set engineering standards, and lead the development of real-time, AI-first features for high-stakes.

Requirements

• 4 + years backend or systems engineering in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and databases.
• Production proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability stacks.
• Experience with computer‑vision/AI model serving, on‑prem/edge deployments, or security‑sensitive/government environments.
• Hands‑on experience integrating LLMs (RAG, agents).
• Comfort with pub/sub architectures (Kafka, MQTT).
• Expertise in Python
• Experience designing and operating AI inference services at scale (Triton, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime) across distributed GPU clusters.
• Knowledge of stream‑processing for high‑volume video data.
• Computer Science degree

Bonus

• Expertise in Go, Rust, or C++.