Backend Engineer - Infrastructure

Job Description

Join a stealth-mode startup on a mission to redefine how people shop online. Our client is building a hyper-personalized, AI-powered shopping experience backed by some of the most successful names in tech. They're tackling challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and large-scale infrastructure, and they're seeking backend engineers who want to build from the ground up.

Term: Full Time

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, CA

The Role:

Architect and scale low-latency, high-throughput systems used by millions

Build APIs, core infrastructure, and backend services powering AI-driven personalization

Collaborate daily - this is a fully onsite role with a tight-knit, high-output team

Shape foundational systems, not just features - we're early, flat, and execution-first

Tech Stack:

Languages: Go, Python, Rust, or similar

Cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure (serverless, containerized workloads)

DevOps: Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines

Systems: Experience with distributed systems, real-time APIs, or high-availability infrastructure

Bonus: Experience scraping and normalizing large-scale data from diverse sources

Ideal Qualifications:

Backend engineer with 7+ years building reliable, scalable infrastructure

Thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and care deeply about clean architecture

Low ego, strong communicator, and ready to own key systems in a product-led org

#zrsepCompany Description

We Met Your Match.

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) is a premier Technology Recruiting and Placement firm that services Greater Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Boston and New York. Our mission is to connect the area's most innovative and well-respected companies. We provide placement services for Full-time/Direct-hire, Contract-to-Hire, and Contract positions.

We strive to create matches which serve both our clients' business needs and our candidates' career goals. Doing so creates long term business relationships which benefit both parties equally. This is why companies come back to us again to fulfill their Software and IT placement needs, and why candidates refer their most talented colleagues and friends to us. This is the secret to our success.

Full-time