Software Engineer - Backend (Product)
Ambient.AI
Posted 2026-05-22
USD 168,000 - USD 205,000 per year
Tech & Engg
Job Description
Ovii's Interpretation of the Role
Ambient.ai seeks a backend software engineer to design and ship APIs and services that power its enterprise security platform. You will own a core product area end‑to‑end, collaborating with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions for Fortune‑500 customers.
Role Snapshot
- Backend API development
- End‑to‑end product ownership
- Performance & reliability tuning
- Cross‑functional collaboration
- Production monitoring & alerting
Must-Have Requirements
- Python
- Flask/Django/FastAPI
- REST/GraphQL/gRPC API design
- SQL/NoSQL/time-series/vector data modeling
- AWS/GCP/Azure
- backend engineering
- user‑facing web or mobile product experience
Nice-to-Have Signals
- Real-time systems (WebSockets, SSE, pub/sub, streaming)
- TypeScript and modern frontend framework (React or Vue)
- Video infrastructure / computer vision / LLM background
- Scaling multi-tenant SaaS
- real‑time systems
- frontend code familiarity
- video/computer‑vision or LLM applications
- scaling multi‑tenant SaaS
Work Setup
- Location: Redwood City, United States
- Work mode: HYBRID
- Remote scope: UNSPECIFIED
- Employment type: Full-Time
Eligibility Gates
- Visa sponsorship: unknown
Not Specified in JD
- Salary range
- Visa sponsorship
- Remote eligibility
- Travel requirement
- Security clearance
- Coding test
What You'll Likely Work On
- Design and ship backend APIs from prototype to enterprise rollout
- Own data modeling, API design, performance, reliability, and operational health for a product area
- Partner with product, design, and frontend engineers to translate ambiguous problems into concrete plans
- Tune performance and reliability under real‑time alert pipeline loads
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting to pre‑empt customer‑facing issues
- Participate in architecture and code reviews and help define team standards
Good Fit If You Have
- Enjoys turning ambiguous problems into clear technical solutions
- Thrives in a fast‑paced, high‑impact startup environment
- Comfortable debugging hard production issues and shipping fixes
Skills
- Python
- Flask / Django / FastAPI
- REST, GraphQL, gRPC API design
- SQL, NoSQL, time‑series, vector data modeling
- AWS / GCP / Azure
- Real‑time systems (WebSockets, SSE, pub/sub)
- TypeScript & modern frontend (React/Vue)
- Video / computer‑vision / LLM background
- Scaling multi‑tenant SaaS