Senior Ai Backend Engineer in United States

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a Backend Engineer on the Chat Engine team, you'll build the engine behind GitLab Duo Chat, the conversational AI experience for GitLab. You'll work primarily in Python to build and maintain our agentic runtime: the Flow Registry, LangGraph flows, and the Duo Workflow Service. You'll also work in the GitLab Rails monolith, where Chat connects with the product. You'll own scoped parts of the system, ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance, and collaborate with the team on larger projects. You'll work alongside senior and staff engineers who will partner with you on design and support

As a Senior Backend Engineer on Coder's Enterprise Experience team, you'll build the systems that help large organizations run Coder in production with confidence. You'll improve how Coder scales, how it's upgraded, and how reliably it performs in regulated, air-gapped, and enterprise environments. You'll work on a genuinely cross-functional team of backend, platform, and QA engineers who own the end-to-end experience for Coder operators. From designing new features to evolving Coder's architecture, you'll partner across engineering and product to solve complex problems and ship software that operators trust. What you'll do here Design and build new features end to end, from technical design through production rollout. Design and implement backend architecture changes that support Coder's long-term scalability goals. Investigate and resolve scalability bottlenecks under production-like load, from database access patterns to concurrency handling in coderd. Improve database migration safety and upgrade reliability through schema compatibility, background migrations, and safe rollback strategies. Own the backend side of issues surfaced by Coder operators and administrators. Document the design, implementation, and operational tradeoffs of the systems you build. Participate in code reviews, RFC-style design discussions, and on-call rotations for the services you own. What we're looking for 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant production experience with Go. Deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, including goroutines, channels, the sync package, and debugging race conditions under real-world load. Experience designing and operating relational databases in production, including schema design, migrations, and transactions. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills, with the persistence to drive complex problems to resolution. A self-motivated, analytical engineer who enj

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Platform is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their users’ experiences. Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers. We're looking for a staff level backend engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. You will: Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructu

About the Role Discover your future at Citi Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact. Job Overview Citi's Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP) is at the vanguard of institutional blockchain adoption — and security is its foundation. As digital assets move from innovation to regulated infrastructure, the cryptographic integrity of every transaction, wallet, and key lifecycle operation becomes mission-critical. We are building the security layer that the world's most sophisticated financial institution can trust. We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer (VP) to join our New York-based Digital Assets Platform engineering team. This is a hands-on, Java-focused backend engineering role for a security-minded engineer who understands both the craft of secure software development and the cryptographic primitives that underpin digital asset custody, signing, and key management. You will sit inside the core engineering team — writing production code every day — while being the resident authority on cryptographic design patterns, HSM integration, MPC protocols, and security architecture. Your work will directly protect billions of dollars of digital asset infrastructure used by institutional clients worldwide. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain security-critical backend services in Java — including cryptographic libraries, key management APIs, signing wor

As a Software Engineer - Frontend on a feature team, you'll be responsible for building an intuitive, responsive product. Your work will help thousands of customers to monitor the health and performance of their systems, no matter the scale. In this capacity, you’ll use tools like React and Typescript to help streamline the flow of data from platform to user, enable seamless pivots from one view to the next, and build a powerful yet easy-to-use platform. You will work on complex frontend challenges for thousands of customers with huge sets of data and work on exciting scalability and performance challenges. Our users are also developers so you will feel close to the product and have an impact on the development world. You will be part of a front-end community of 200+ passionate frontend engineers and you will be surrounded by experts. Join us to build the next generation of high-scale, data-powered features for our customers. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Work closely with backend engineers, product managers and designers to inform/refine/validate design concepts Break down complex features into distributable engineering tasks and rollout plans Design and deliver features that have direct impact on thousands of users Experiment with and advocate for new systems, design patterns, and tooling Participate in hackathons, sync with other Front end engineers at the monthly demos meeting and yearly Front End summit Use and contribute to a best-in-class in-house design system Own meaningful parts of our service, improve performance and address scalability limits Work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values diversity of talent, excellence of product, and exciting engineering challen

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta's growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We're growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! The Authoring Experience team owns how Vanta tests are authored and deployed to customers, from the APIs and services underneath to the experiences built on top. As a Senior Backend Engineer on this team, you will own the services and public-facing customer APIs that turn Vanta's automation platform into products customers touch directly, stitching together systems across the platform to serve them well. What you’ll do as a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer at Vanta: Own the architecture and rollout strategy for critical platform services, from initial design through large-scale rollout and migration. Set the technical bar for how we design, publish, and maintain customer-facing APIs while owning things like security, reliability, and developer experience. Stitch together

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities. As a key member of our engineering team, you'll be responsible for optimizing and enhancing our search functionality, which is a critical feature of our platform and underpins our AI efforts. Your impact at ClickUp As a Senior Engineer on the Search squad, you'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our search infrastructure. Our platform is built as backend services on top of Postgres and OpenSearch, focused on real-time search ingestion and serving. You'll work hands-on with these systems to ensure users can instantly find exactly what they need across their workspace. Your expertise will directly contribute to making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform available. Core Responsibilities Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds Improve our real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant r

About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. You will: Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next Who You Are: You have significant experience in one or more languages You value code simplicity and performance You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs 6+ years of experience Bonus points: You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before You have a strong background in statistics You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualificat

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Avatar Marketplace team, you will be building an international marketplace for millions of virtual items that users acquire to customize their avatars and identities on the Roblox platform. You will design, implement, and operate the frameworks and services you and the team build that help control the supply and demand of the Roblox economy. The team is responsible for building systems that will help content creators become more successful sellers. With over 90 million daily active users (and growing), we are looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about designing and building scalable systems for both sides of the marketplace. The Marketplace Foundation team's focus is to provide reliable and scalable solutions for critical systems supporting both Avatar Marketplace creators and users. We aim to invent new and evolve existing core concepts to support new and future use cases in a holistic manner, such as Bundles, Limiteds, and Price Optimization. We help the creators to improve their earning while scaling Roblox's economy. The team is also responsible for ensuring 10x scalability headroom on critical Marketplace system

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections. Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology. About the Role Every consumer experience Mindbody ships is built on top of our consumer platform. The platform is the shared foundation that lets our front-end squads deliver reliable, consistent wellness experiences without rebuilding the plumbing every time. This role exists to answer a deceptively simple question: what does the consumer platform need to become so that front-end squads can move fast on solid ground — and how do we get there from a legacy monolith without breaking the surfaces that depend on it today? This is a senior individual-contributor role for a product leader who is equally comfortable in two rooms: designing API contracts and service boundaries with a senior backend engineering team, and making the cross-surface platform calls that keep multiple consumer squads pulling in the same direction. You'll own the consumer platform roadmap, partner closely with engineering and your downstream partner squads, and be measured on how much faster and more reliably the rest of consumer can build because of the foundation you've shaped. What you'll do Own the consumer platform strategy and roadmap. Define the capabilities the platform must provide so consumer s

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Airbnb Payments team supports this mission by economically empowering Airbnb businesses and our global community of guests and hosts. Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb’s belongs anywhere mission. We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. The Ledger team is part of the core platform of the Airbnb Payments ecosystem, where we own the financial integrity of Airbnb's money movement. The team is building Airbnb's financial system of record and the platform that governs when money is held rather than moved. The team engineers are responsible for ensuring that every payment event is recorded accurately and completely, and that money moves — or is held — exactly as Airbnb's obligations and controls require, in a way that is reliable, accurate, timely, scalable, and auditable. We are evolving these platforms to enable the next generation of Airbnb payments products, and the engineers who join us will help set the foundations those products are built on. The Difference You Will Make: We are looking for talented and self-motivated Senior Software Engineers who are passionate about working in this highly dynamic domain and collaborating with world

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team tackles some of Postman's most strategic technical challenges. We partner directly with enterprise customers to solve problems that don't fit neatly into existing product boundaries, building production-grade solutions that often become core product capabilities. As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. You'll deploy Postman's critical infrastructure into customer environments, solve complex distributed systems challenges, and build the enterprise foundations that enable customers to safely adopt AI at scale. This isn't consulting or professional services. You're an engineer building production systems alongside customers, turning real-world deployments into durable platform capabilities used by thousands of organizations. This team will build 0-to-1 products from scratch - innovative, strategic initiatives designed to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue. If you enjoy difficult engineering problems, working directly with customers, and building products from the field

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! The Integrations Platform team mission is to power the world’s largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly. We own Vanta’s integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity Providers, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are focused on developing the Integration Platform. This includes creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same fou

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Communications team, you'll own the backend systems that power chat and messaging for millions of players on Roblox and support billions of messages per day. Your day-to-day will focus on building and scaling the infrastructure that makes in-game communication fast, safe, and reliable. That means driving architectural decisions, creating communication modes that don't exist yet, and defining developer-facing APIs so creators can build richer experiences. You'll work closely with frontend engineers, platform, product, and design, and you'll have real influence over the technical and product direction of the team. If you're an experienced engineer who gets excited about large-scale distributed systems and wants to shape the way millions of people connect inside virtual worlds, we'd love to talk. You Will Build and scale backend infrastructure for millions of concurrent users, architecting high-throughput distributed services, integrating ML models, and enabling rapid product experimentation Equip creators with the APIs and tools to build deeply integrated social experiences in their games Own projects end-to-end: from design and architecture through produc

Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders. What you’ll do As an engineer at Brex, you will help develop new products from concept to launch, whether for a 5-person startup or a 5,000-person-strong enterprise. We’re looking for folks with an interest in building products and tools, and who are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. You’ll be building customer-facing products that will drive direct business impact and shape our long-term technical vision with a high-quality bar. You'll have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best fin