The Role
Design, build, and improve scalable backend systems, including REST APIs, microservices, data processing pipelines, and distributed job systems. Write secure, maintainable, and tested code; troubleshoot production issues; improve engineering practices and tooling; and participate in on-call support. The role requires experience with web applications, Node.js, highly available distributed systems, scalable backend APIs, and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
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About Deploy
Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. For leading open source LLMs, Deploy operates an optimized model inference engine that keeps costs and latency low while maintaining high throughout. Deploy also offers a set of proprietary AI models that address challenges in content safety, AI & deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP & publicity protection. Trusted by the world's largest and most innovative organizations, Deploy's solutions unlock high-performance AI model inference at production scale.
Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.
Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.
About the Role
In order to execute our vision, we need to grow our team of best-in-class engineers. We are looking for developers who are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale. Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
- Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
- Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
- Practice test-driven development
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues
- Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
- Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority
Requirements
- You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
- You have a few years of experience building web applications
- You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
- You have experience implementing highly-available distributed systems/microservices
- You have experience building scalable backend APIs
- You have experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred
- Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus
- You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness
- You are comfortable learning new technologies and systems
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
Who We Are
We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Deploy, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.
Thank you for your interest in Deploy and we hope to meet you soon!
The current expected base salary for this position ranges from $120,000 - $180,000. Actual compensation may vary depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; stock options may be offered in addition to the range provided here.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- A few years of experience building web applications
- Experience or strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
- Experience implementing highly available distributed systems or microservices
- Experience building scalable backend APIs
- Experience working with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Understanding of monitoring and alerting platforms
- Commitment to high code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices
- Attention to detail and passion for correctness
- Comfort learning new technologies and systems
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias toward action
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The Company
What We Do
Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based enterprise AI solutions to power the next wave of intelligent automation. The company offers a portfolio of best-in-class deep learning models, built with consensus-validated training data sourced and annotated by a distributed workforce of more than 2 million registered contributors. Hive's APIs enable use cases including automated content moderation, contextual advertising, advertising and sponsorship measurement, document parsing, and more. Hive processes billions of API requests per month for many of the world’s largest and most innovative companies. Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Jericho Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. In April 2021, Hive announced a $50M Series D at a $2B valuation. The San Francisco-based company has 175+ full-time employees globally, in addition to a distributed workforce of more than 2 million global contributors that supports data labeling operations. For more information, visit thehive.ai.
