Backend Software Engineer, Camera & Photos Tools & AI Team

What you'll do

• Design, deploy, and operate model-serving infrastructure for LLM integrations, vision pipelines, and agentic workflows.
• Develop Python REST API backends and data models for large-scale image, video, and metadata catalogs.
• Build and scale asynchronous compute jobs to handle long-running imaging and quality analysis tasks.
• Implement prompt engineering strategies and retrieval-augmented systems (RAG) using vector storage and retrieval infrastructure.
• Evaluate and maintain AI/ML models in production by monitoring for quality regressions and balancing cost and latency.
• Translate complex workflows from engineering and science teams into reliable backend services.
• Drive the reliability, performance, and observability of production services through technical design and code reviews.

What we're looking for

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production backend systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python with a track record of owning production backend services end to end.
• Strong understanding of REST API design and experience building and operating production REST services at scale.
• Demonstrated experience hosting and serving AI/ML models in production, including infrastructure for inference, scaling, and monitoring.
• Working knowledge of asynchronous job execution patterns for long-running computations and experience scaling these systems under load.
• Solid understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals including consistency, coordination, and failure handling.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with partners outside of engineering.