We are looking for a Backend Engineer to own the systems that ingest, evaluate, and serve agent behavior data at production scale. You will work across telemetry ingestion, platform reliability, sandbox infrastructure, and the API surface that customers and integrations build on. Some weeks you will be deep in distributed systems and query performance. Other weeks you will ship a customer-facing feature across backend, APIs, and the data layer. What you'll do:
Own platform scaling, reliability, and latency: caching, retries, and backpressure as customer traffic grows
Optimize sandbox environments for speed, isolation, and cost efficiency
Build high-throughput telemetry ingestion and tune OLAP performance: partitioning, indexing, and query optimization over billions of spans
Own the API surface used by the NeoSigma platform UI, SDKs, MCP server, and customer integrations
Build evaluation pipelines with retry semantics, failure recovery, and tenant-level scheduling
Work directly with customers to debug agent failures and turn those signals into infrastructure improvements
Roll out safely with feature flags, design docs, and production observability
What we look for:
Strong backend engineering experience building and operating production systems under real load
Solid fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, data modelling, and performance
Experience with high-volume telemetry, trace, or event data at scale
Strong intuition for data systems: query patterns, indexing, partitioning, and latency
High ownership mentality: you debug production issues and don't wait for someone else to notice what's broken
Clear communicator across design docs, code reviews, and tradeoff discussions
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Our Core Values:
Customer Obsession - We start with the customer and work backwards. We aim to earn trust through consistent delivery, thoughtful listening, and by obsessing over customers.
Intellectual Honesty - We operate with high trust and low ego. Ideas matter more than titles, and we communicate openly and directly while assuming good intent, even in strong disagreement.
Bias for Action - We set high standards and move quickly to meet them. We prefer building and learning with customers over debating in the abstract, and we iterate based on real feedback.
Extreme Ownership - We take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks. Ownership means seeing problems through to completion and ensuring solutions truly work in practice.
Benefits and perks
Competitive salary plus meaningful equity package
Comprehensive medical benefits and generous PTO
Flexible work arrangements
Direct impact on company direction and technical decisions
High ownership and the opportunity to make a career-defining impact
Visa sponsorship
As a founding member, you’ll help define the technical foundation of NeoSigma. Your scope will grow with the company, from owning core systems end-to-end to shaping architecture, hiring, and engineering culture. This role has a natural path toward technical leadership or engineering management as the team scales.
Numbers & Facts
Location
San Francisco, California
Skills
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Cachingunmatched
Code Reviewsunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Customer Relationsunmatched
Data Modelingunmatched
Debugging Skillsunmatched
Distributed Computingunmatched
Engineeringunmatched
Engineering Managementunmatched
High Throughputunmatched
MCP - Microsoft Certified Professionalunmatched
OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing)unmatched
Performance Modelingunmatched
Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
Product/Service Launchunmatched
Production Systemsunmatched
Query Optimizationunmatched
Systems Engineeringunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Telemetryunmatched
User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
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