Senior Backend Engineer - Together Cloud

Job Description

Together AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to their AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform designed for the generative AI lifecycle. The successful candidate will be instrumental in developing a highly available, global, and fast cloud infrastructure that virtualizes cutting-edge ML hardware and empowers ML practitioners with self-serve AI cloud services.Together AI is looking for someone with strong software development skills, systems knowledge, and excellent communication abilities.Responsibilities:

• Perform architecture and research work for decentralized AI workloads
• Work on the core, open-source Together AI platform
• Create services, tools, and developer documentation
• Create testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience and proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Golang desired)
• 5+ years experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
• Demonstrated experience with building and operating high-performance and/or globally distributed micro-service architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members
• Deep experience with Kubernetes internals a big plus
• Deep experience with VMs/hypervisors a big plus
• Deep experience with DC networking tech + solutions a big plus
• Experience with Cluster API or similar a big plus
• Experience working on high-performance compute, networking, and/or storage a big plus
• Experience virtualizing GPUs and/or Infiniband a big plus
• Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools, monitoring/observability stacks, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building IaaS or PaaS systems at scale a plus
• Experience with DPUs/SmartNICs a plus
• GPU programming, NCCL, CUDA knowledge a plus

What Together AI Offers:

• Competitive compensation
• Startup equity
• Health insurance
• Flexibility in terms of remote work