Mozilla.ai is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

The Senior Backend Engineer will lead the development of backend services for an AI platform, focusing on reliability, performance, security, and scalability. They will collaborate with various teams to integrate backend services with frontend interfaces and user workflows, design databases and storage solutions, implement security measures, and troubleshoot technical issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• At least 5 years of experience in backend development, with a focus on designing and building scalable, distributed systems
• Strong programming skills in a major language (e.g., Java/Scala, Go, Rust, Python, C++) with at least moderate experience in Python
• Strong experience with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), RESTful APIs, and distributed systems
• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Familiarity with data storage, warehousing, and processing technologies, e.g., BigQuery, Spark, dbt

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of the backend infrastructure for our AI platform
• Architect and build robust APIs, microservices, messaging/queuing systems and data pipelines to support the creation, training, and deployment of specialist models
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and code documentation
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and frontend developers to integrate backend services with frontend interfaces and user workflows
• Design and optimize databases and storage solutions for efficiently storing and accessing large volumes of data used in model training and inference
• Implement security measures and best practices to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with widely adopted industry standards
• Work with messaging/queuing systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise, and provide support to internal and external stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with DevOps practices and implementation, e.g., continuous testing, integration, and deployment is a plus

Benefits

• Premium package featuring core benefits tailored to your country of residence encompassing essential services such as health insurance and retirement plans
• 25 per year of Paid Time-off
• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees
• One-time home office stipend 1,000 USD
• Annual professional development budget
• Annual well-being stipend of 3,500 USD
• Paid parental leave