Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small engineering team building the backend infrastructure for a healthcare imaging platform. You will own systems for data ingestion, warehousing, and distributed model inference that support AI-assisted radiology. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure across data ingestion, warehousing, and distributed inference on AWS. - Own reliability, observability, debugging, and capacity planning across the stack. - Build CI/CD and deployment automation that helps the team ship safely and efficiently. - Design systems that handle protected health information with encryption, access controls, and audit logging. - Work with the ML team on infrastructure and model inference pipelines as priorities require. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 6 years of experience in backend engineering, data infrastructure, or distributed systems. - Strong production experience with Python, Go, or Java, and hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems on AWS or a comparable cloud. - Experience building large-scale data pipelines, ETL, data warehouses or data lakes, and handling schema evolution. - Experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, and troubleshooting complex systems while balancing performance, cost, security, and maintainability. - Experience leading multi-quarter technical initiatives across systems or teams, and working in a startup or small, fast-moving engineering team. - Exposure to ML infrastructure or model inference pipelines and HIPAA-compliant system design is valuable. - Familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Docker is useful. A STEM degree or strong computer science fundamentals is expected. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $215,000 to $275,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.