Alterion · 3 days ago
Senior Backend Systems Engineer, Tech Lead
San Francisco Office
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expAlterion is building the control plane for the agentic enterprise, enabling organizations to safely deploy, monitor, and scale autonomous AI agents. The Senior Backend Systems Engineer, Tech Lead will design and implement core backend and distributed systems while providing technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Design and implement backend and distributed systems supporting identity, policy enforcement, observability, and agent lifecycle management
Build secure, scalable APIs and services that operate reliably in multi-tenant, cloud-native environments
Make and document system design tradeoffs across consistency, performance, availability, and operational complexity
Own backend services end to end, from initial design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration
Establish backend engineering standards for correctness, testing, observability, and long-term maintainability
Lead design reviews and mentor engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
Collaborate closely with security, AI, and product partners to translate platform requirements into robust system designs
Qualification
Required
5–8 years of experience building and operating backend or distributed systems in production environments
Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Python, or TypeScript
Experience designing and operating cloud-native services on AWS, GCP, or Azure
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including scalability, fault tolerance, data consistency, and observability
Experience designing APIs and service boundaries for complex or evolving systems
Demonstrated ownership of critical systems with responsibility for reliability, performance, and long-term health
Experience mentoring other engineers or serving as a technical lead on backend or platform projects
Comfort operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments and helping shape system direction
Preferred
Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming systems
Familiarity with identity, authentication, authorization, or policy-based systems
Exposure to security-sensitive, compliance-oriented, or multi-tenant platforms
Experience operating systems at meaningful scale (high request volume, large datasets, or multi-region deployments)
Strong production observability practices across metrics, logs, and traces
Prior experience at an early-stage startup or on foundational infrastructure teams
Exposure to AI-adjacent systems or data pipelines (nice to have, not required)
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Meaningful equity
Company
Alterion
At Alterion we are focused on creating the foundational infrastructure for the AI agentic era.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase