About the role: We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep backend engineering expertise and proficiency in one or more major programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Rust, or Kotlin), along with a strong understanding of AI models and agents. As a core member of our AI Engineering team, you will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product managers to build scalable, production-ready infrastructure and APIs that power intelligent systems. What you'll be doing: As a Senior Backend Engineer in the AI Engineering team, you will: Build and maintain reliable, scalable backend services to support AI agent execution and orchestration. Develop AI agent systems for complex operational workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM, and Langfuse. Orchestrate a hybrid model stack that includes OpenAI and Google Gemini alongside self-hosted and fine-tuned LLMs like Gemma and Llama. Build and maintain integrations with clinical systems (FHIR, EMR). Drive observability and reliability using OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and Langfuse. Design APIs (GraphQL, REST), background workers, and event-driven systems that interface with AI inference engines and agent runtimes. Collaborate with Data Science, ML, and engineering teams to deploy AI features and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of backend systems. Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to elevate the team’s technical capabilities. What we're looking for: 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong proficiency in more than one major programming language (such as Python, Java, Go, Rust, or Kotlin). Solid understanding of AI systems architecture and experience working in environments involving AI agents, LLMs, or inference pipelines. Proven experience in building and scaling backend APIs, microservices, and background jobs. Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis), including schema des
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About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we
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