Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States On-site
$200,000–$260,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
Our platform empowers developers by providing secure, reliable access to LLMs and adjacent services, and we're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build rock-solid guardrails and observability tooling at scale. You’ll focus on owning our guardrails and logging world-class. You will be in charge of the backend code that ensures all guardrail calls are consistently logged, errors are surfaced to users (not silently swallowed), and our observability instrumentation works for real-world, high-volume traffic. Your attention to detail in areas like latency metrics, logging traceability, and backend guardrail registration will directly impact user trust in our security and compliance features.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field
- 1+ years of experience with Python and backend frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Flask)
- Understanding of logging best practices, error handling, and secure backend development
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, or metrics platforms (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- Familiarity with database integration and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.)
- Driven to deliver high-quality backend code with strong guardrails, auditing, and debugging capabilities
- Eagerness to tackle hard bugs and ensure system transparency for end users