Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Intuition Machines, a company using AI/ML to build enterprise security products, as a Backend Engineer. You will work on core production code, including distributed systems and machine learning implementation and optimization. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining backend services and algorithms, implementing DevSecOps practices, and writing clean, well-documented code. The role requires at least 3 years of experience in a similar role, expertise in backend development (Python and one of Golang, Rust, or C++), and experience with various technologies like Kubernetes and databases. Intuition Machines offers a fully remote position with flexible hours, a collaborative team, and opportunities for high impact work.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in a similar role
• Expertise in backend development in Python and at least one of: Golang, Rust, C++
• Experience with Kubernetes, metrics-driven deployment, containerization, and microservices
• Experience in implementing and using monitoring and tracing solutions
• Experience with key-value stores and SQL databases and optimizing their performance
• Experience with high traffic, low latency distributed systems: queue-first arch, sharding, etc
• Interest in clean architecture (gather requirements, problem solve and recommend)

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and algorithms
• Implement DevSecOps practices: security protocols, monitoring, metrics, and automated alerts
• Write clean, well-documented, production-quality code with thorough test coverage
• Strengthen engineering practices through code reviews, testing automation, and on-call support
• Translate complex requirements into actionable sprint tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Golang, Rust, or C++
• Experience with high traffic, low latency distributed systems: queue-first architectures, sharding, etc
• Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript/React and frontend development
• Willingness to learn and work across different technologies: Python, Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Clickhouse, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Azure, JavaScript
• Familiarity with security frameworks, attack vectors, botnets, OLAP at scale, and online + active learning systems
• Experience or interest in AI/ML and blockchain technologies

Benefits

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours
• An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world
• Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often
• High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D
• Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams