Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Requirements

• Experience developing scalable services using Python
• Experience developing RESTFUL APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
• Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
• Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)
• Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
• Experience writing scalable, async code and leveraging asyncio, generators, coroutines
• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
• Familiarity with AWS IAM, IRSA, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, lambda
• Familiarity leveraging schema-registry, and serialization protocols such as avro, parquet, and JSON-schema
• 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 k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware.
• At least 5 years of professional Python or Golang.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy the backend services that power transformative products, including Create, Stylize, and Studio.
• Work with web and video standards to power a suite of web-based video and audio creation/editing tools.
• Dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH, and work with tools such as FFMPEG.
• Build and deploy backend services and APIs to Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Write secure, stable, and scalable Python code.
• Interface with the foundation model and integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV a plus.