Together AI · 2 days ago
Senior Backend Engineer - Commerce
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $250K/yr
5+ years expTogether AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape, build, and scale their commerce platform. The role involves developing mission-critical capabilities such as usage-based billing and payment processing, while solving complex challenges in distributed systems.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIInternetIT InfrastructureOpen Source
Responsibilities
Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Together’s commerce 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 understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
Expert-level programmer in one or more of Golang, Rust, Python, Java, or TypeScript
Proficiency in writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, AWS CDK, or Pulumi
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 payment processors (e.g. Stripe) and billing systems a plus
Experience with Kubernetes, or containers a plus
Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Startup equity
Health insurance
Other competitive benefits
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
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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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