Together AI · 5 days ago
Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $230K/yr
5+ years expTogether AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building the next generation AI cloud platform, delivering robust and scalable cloud services for internal and external customers.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIInternetIT InfrastructureOpen Source
Responsibilities
Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Together’s cloud platform
Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure
Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs
Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems
Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance
Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents when necessary
Qualification
Required
5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices
Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members
Demonstrated experience with building and operating high-performance and/or globally distributed microservice architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage, including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scale
Experience developing against and managing a relational database, such as PostgreSQL
Expert-level programmer in one or more of programming language (Golang preferred)
Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience with Kubernetes and containers preferred
Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Startup equity
Health insurance
Flexibility in terms of remote work
Company
Together AI
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$533.5MKey Investors
Salesforce VenturesLux Capital
2025-02-20Series B· $305M
2024-03-13Series A· $106M
2023-11-29Series A· $102.5M
Leadership Team
Vipul Ved Prakash
Co-Founder & CEO
Kae Ike Lim
Executive Assistant to Co-Founder and CEO
Recent News
2025-11-27
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