Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description:

DataRobot delivers AI that maximizes impact and minimizes business risk. Our platform and applications integrate into core business processes so teams can develop, deliver, and govern AI at scale. DataRobot empowers practitioners to deliver predictive and generative AI, and enables leaders to secure their AI assets. Organizations worldwide rely on DataRobot for AI that makes sense for their business — today and in the future. 

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on agent and application builder experience, you will design and build systems that shape how customers create, configure, orchestrate, and monitor AI-powered applications on the DataRobot platform. Your work will improve usability, reliability, and transparency of agent workflows and application lifecycle management, ensuring customers can move from idea to production quickly and safely.

You will work closely with Product, UX, Platform, and AI/ML teams to turn customer feedback into intuitive platform capabilities that make AI applications easier to manage, debug, scale, and trust in production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Improve the end-to-end experience for building, deploying, and operating AI applications, from configuration and execution to monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Develop MCP-compatible tool frameworks that enable secure, observable, and reusable integrations between agents, data sources, UI components, and services.

• Build systems that provide clear visibility into agent and tool behavior, including status, logs, metrics, traces, and tool-call diagnostics.

• Collaborate with Product and UX to turn customer pain points into platform enhancements that reduce complexity.

• Balance flexibility and extensibility with simplicity, ensuring new capabilities improve the customer experience.

• Participate in architectural discussions around application framework, extensibility, and long-term evolution.

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices around API design, developer experience, and customer-facing reliability.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building customer-facing applications or developer tools.

• Strong experience designing APIs and service contracts that prioritize usability, clarity, and long-term maintainability.

• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Java, Go, C++, or similar).

• Working knowledge of frontend integration concepts (component-based architectures, state management, API consumption).

• Solid understanding of observability for complex workflows (logs, metrics, tracing, error reporting, and debugging tooling).

• Ability to reason about customer needs, navigate ambiguity, and balance performance, usability, and reliability.

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Nice to Have:

• Experience improving developer experience or platform usability for internal or external customers..

• Familiarity with GenAI / LLM-based systems, including agent workflows, tool calling, or prompt-driven execution.

• Background in application lifecycle management, deployment pipelines, or runtime configuration systems.

• Exposure to enterprise environments, including regulated, hybrid, or on-prem deployments.

The talent and dedication of our employees are at the core of DataRobot’s journey to be an iconic company. We strive to attract and retain the best talent by providing competitive pay and benefits with our employees’ well-being at the core. Here’s what your benefits package may include depending on your location and local legal requirements: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Flexible Time Off Program, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!

DataRobot Operating Principles:

• Wow Our Customers
• Set High Standards
• Be Better Than Yesterday
• Be Rigorous
• Assume Positive Intent
• Have the Tough Conversations
• Be Better Together
• Debate, Decide, Commit
• Deliver Results
• Overcommunicate

Research shows that many women only apply to jobs when they meet 100% of the qualifications while many men apply to jobs when they meet 60%. At DataRobot we encourage ALL candidates, especially women, people of color, LGBTQ+ identifying people, differently abled, and other people from marginalized groups to apply to our jobs, even if you do not check every box. We’d love to have a conversation with you and see if you might be a great fit. 

DataRobot is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. DataRobot is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Please see the United States Department of Labor’s EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.

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