Hiring: Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products Company: Recruiting from Scratch Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 10:28:23 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Airflow, Event-Driven, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, PostgreSQL, Python, Systems Design About the job Experience: •4+ years of backend software engineering experience building production distributed systems. Required Skills: •We're representing one of the fastest-growing AI companies building the infrastructure that powers the global AI economy. Their platform connects leading AI labs and enterprises with a worldwide network of expert talent to generate the high-quality data required to train and evaluate frontier AI models. •Design and build backend services that orchestrate complex, multi-stage workflows involving AI models and human experts. •Develop distributed state management systems capable of coordinating long-running jobs that evolve over hours or days. •Build workflow orchestration primitives including retries, failure recovery, idempotency, auditing, and state reconciliation. •Integrate large language model inference into production systems while maintaining reliability, observability, and human oversight. •Design scalable APIs and internal tooling that enable Product, Operations, and Machine Learning teams to manage production workflows. •Build highly reliable backend infrastructure where correctness and recoverability are as important as system availability. •Debug complex distributed systems spanning asynchronous processing, model inference, and human review workflows. Qualifications: •Background building orchestration platforms, distributed state machines, or event-driven backend systems. •Operational familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure and modern backend architecture. •In-depth knowledge of fault tolerance, observability, and debugging distributed production environments. •Startup experience building greenfield systems with significant architectural ownership. •Passion for solving difficult infrastructure problems that directly impact customer-facing AI products. Compensation: •$130,000 - $400,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!