Tealium · 10 hours ago
Sr. Backend Engineer - AI Services (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$140K/yr - $156K/yr
4+ years expTealium is a leader in real-time Customer Data Platforms, helping organizations unify their customer data for personalized experiences. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and operate backend services and data/ML pipelines that power AI across their platform, ensuring high-volume, real-time customer data is usable for intelligent experiences.
AnalyticsData IntegrationDeveloper APIsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power Tealium’s AI/ML capabilities (real-time scoring, batch enrichment, model-driven personalization)
Implement and maintain data and ML pipelines for ingestion, transformation, feature computation, and inference (batch and streaming)
Work with streaming and messaging systems (for example, Kafka) to handle high-volume event data reliably and efficiently
Use distributed data processing frameworks (for example, Spark or cloud data platforms) to build scalable batch and near real-time jobs
Partner with data scientists and ML engineers to productionize models and integrate them into online and offline systems
Deploy and operate services in AWS using containers (Docker), Kubernetes/EKS, and Infrastructure as Code (for example, Terraform or equivalent)
Maintain strong testing discipline with unit and integration tests for services and pipelines
Improve observability with structured logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts to ensure reliability and fast incident response
Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers, helping raise the bar on design, implementation, and operational excellence across the team
Qualification
Required
4+ years building backend services and/or data/ML pipelines in production
Demonstrated experience owning services end-to-end (design, implementation, testing, deployment, operations)
Strong ability to read and improve existing complex codebases
Strong proficiency in Java or Kotlin (or another JVM language) with a modern web framework
Strong foundation in distributed systems and service‑oriented architectures, including experience with RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing, and event‑driven designs
Experience with streaming or messaging systems (for example, Kafka)
Experience with distributed data processing (for example, Spark or cloud data platforms)
Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (for example, Terraform or equivalent)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong unit and integration testing habits and basic observability practices (logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts)
Preferred
Experience building platforms or services that support machine learning or AI‑driven features (such as model serving, feature stores, or experimentation platforms)
Python
Databricks
MLflow
Spark
Benefits
Employees are eligible to receive an annual bonus and stock options.
Employees and their families are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
Employees have the option to enroll in our 401k plan and are eligible to receive contributions for company matching.
Employees are eligible for flexible paid time-off and extended paid parental leave.
We offer 11 paid holidays annually with an additional Healium Be-Well break for most employees.
We offer 15 hours of paid work time for volunteer activities and programs.
Our sick leave accrual is the following for our employees: Exempt CA employees (not including San Francisco) including NY : accrue 40 hours each year. Unused sick leave carries over into the next year. Employees cannot exceed 80 hours in a given year. Exempt Non - CA employees (not including NY) including SF: Accrue 1 hour every 30 hours worked. Cannot exceed 180 hours in the calendar year. Non-Exempt: accrue 1 hour every 30 hours worked. Unused carries over to the next year. Not to exceed 108 hours in a calendar year.
Tealium Cares, to promote caring in our communities, 15 hours of paid work time for volunteer activities and programs is offered annually.
Tealium Connects (remote-first working), enabling many of us to choose where we do our best work and offering new hire stipends to assist with purchasing things we need to support a successful home office environment.
Tealium Ownership, share in the success of Tealium by becoming an owner of Tealium beginning with new hire equity grants.
Tealium Time, paid time-off policy to offer flexibility to take time when needed and robust leave programs, including extended paid parental leave and company holidays.
Healium, health and wellness programs to help us be our best selves in the experiences of health, physical, mental, social, and even financial well-being and wellness.
Tealium LIFT (Learning is Facilitated at Tealium), offering a myriad of professional development opportunities with over 6,000 courses available on demand to best-in-class manager and leadership development programs.
Health and Related Benefits Programs, offering market competitive benefits programs.
Company
Tealium
Tealium is a provider of customer data orchestration tools aimed to address challenges in online search, marketing, and segment targeting.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$263.9MKey Investors
Silver Lake WatermanCiti VenturesGeorgian
2022-10-03Series Unknown
2021-02-03Series G· $96M
2019-05-15Series F· $55M
Leadership Team
Jeffrey Lunsford
Chief Executive Officer
Ali Behnam
Co-Founder
Recent News
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