Staff Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Archetype AI is developing an AI platform to integrate AI into the real world, driven by a team from Google. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead the design and scaling of core backend systems, collaborating with various teams to ensure performance and reliability of AI models in production.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of distributed systems supporting high-throughput, low-latency AI model inference and data services
• Collaborate with ML researchers and product teams to transition experimental models into production-grade systems
• Define technical strategy and best practices for backend systems, including GPU clusters, cloud infrastructure, and distributed data pipelines
• Drive performance optimization, reliability, and operational excellence across large-scale systems
• Build internal tools, monitoring, and observability frameworks to proactively detect and resolve issues
• Introduce innovative architectures, techniques, and automation to maximize scalability, efficiency, and reliability
• Mentor engineers, lead by example, and foster a culture of engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, and collaboration
• Balance rapid iteration on early-stage systems with long-term architectural soundness and maintainability
• Take ownership of end-to-end problem solving—from design through deployment—ensuring high quality and robust delivery