The Software Engineer (AI Backend Services) will design, develop, and own backend systems and components that power generative AI applications and large language model (LLM) integrations. This role focuses on independently architecting and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance services using Python, FastAPI, and AWS cloud infrastructure, while mentoring junior engineers. This is an individual contributor role KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Design and implement Python-based backend services (on FastAPI) for AI workloads, including LLM integration and generative AI pipelines - Own end-to-end design and delivery of APIs and microservices for model serving, inference, and orchestration of AI agents - Architect and maintain AWS-based infrastructure for AI workloads (e.g., Lambda, EKS) with focus on scalability and reliability - Make independent technical decisions for component-level architecture and design patterns - Lead integration efforts for LLMs and generative AI models into production systems using LangChain, Langfuse, and litellm - Establish monitoring, logging, and observability best practices for AI backend services - Optimize backend performance for large-scale AI applications - Mentor Software Engineer II team members through code reviews and technical guidance - Collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence technical direction across multiple projects BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 4-7 years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend focus - Expert-level proficiency in Python for backend development in production environments - Solid understanding of LLMs, generative AI concepts, and modern AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, litellm, Langfuse) - Proven experience designing and building scalable systems on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, EKS) - Deep knowledge of microservices architecture, API design, and distributed systems - Strong experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and orchestration - Demonstrated ability to own technical components and make independent architectural decisions - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Extensive experience building and scaling APIs and backend systems for AI/ML workloads in production - Deep expertise with FastAPI and asynchronous Python programming - Experience architecting event-driven systems for AI applications - Track record of mentoring engineers and conducting effective code reviews - Strong understanding of system design patterns and trade-offs - Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) - Knowledge of model deployment strategies and MLOps practices - Proven ability to drive technical initiatives and influence engineering culture - Excellent communication skills and experience working across teams Work assignment location : Remote Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates. Information & Business Tech

• Align workforce capacity and capability planning to product roadmaps, anticipating future skill and leadership needs to enable delivery on strategic priorities • Lead complex organizational design initiatives that create clarity of structure, roles, and accountability at scale • Partner on job architecture, leveling frameworks, and career paths across engineering and product teams to support growth and internal mobility • Drive succession planning and leadership bench strength for critical technical and people leadership roles • Partner with leaders to design and execute change strategies that ensure organizational shifts are clearly communicated, thoughtfully implemented, and effectively adopted • Increase talent density by strengthening performance differentiation and addressing underperformance proactively and consistently • Drive performance discipline through structured rhythms and coaching leaders to build high-performing, outcome-driven teams • Identify and proactively retain critical technical talent, particularly in high-demand areas such as AI engineering, through targeted retention and development strategies • Leverage attrition, engagement, and performance data to drive proactive, evidence-based talent decisions • Ensure promotion, leveling, and advancement decisions are rigorous, equitable, and aligned to clear performance standards • Lead, develop, and align a team of People Business Partners, setting clear expectations, coaching for high-impact, and elevating standards of strategic partnership • Establish clear operating norms and feedback loops across PBPs supporting Product & Engineering • Lead complex performance and employee relations matters with sound judgment, balancing business impact, employee experience, and risk mitigation • Drive consistent, equitable application of People practices while reinforcing a high-accountability, inclusive culture across technical teams.

At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2025.) We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social, helping brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/. We’re committed to innovation that empowers, not replaces. At MNTN, AI is a tool for growth, enhancing efficiency while keeping a people-first approach. Our goal is to streamline workflows and drive new solutions—without compromising the human element that makes our company great. So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth. The MNTN Creative Delivery Services team manages ad delivery from backend to front end. As part of this team, you’ll contribute to the core infrastructure that drives creative processing, delivery, and optimization across our entire platform. You'll be joining the group that owns our high-volume ad server and the pipelines that manage how creative assets are ingested, transformed, and served. As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing scalable systems, improving performance, and building new integrations that expand creative capabilities for some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Your work will directly impact the flexibility, speed, and reliability of our ad experiences—at scale. What you’ll do - Design, build, and operate high-throughput Java/Kotlin services that power our ad server and creative delivery pipelines - Own systems end-to-end — from API design and ingestion flows to transformation, caching, and global delivery - Work across the stack when needed (Rust services, Kafka streams, Terraform, relational databases) to solve the right problem with the right tool - Improve performance, observability, and resiliency of critical production systems running at scale - Partner closely with Product and Project leads to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions - Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the future of our creative platform - Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and pragmatic best practices What success looks like - You own and evolve high-scale services within our ad serving and creative delivery platform, ensuring low-latency, high-availability performance under sustained traffic. - You design and ship scalable solutions that measurably improve system reliability, throughput, or cost efficiency. - You proactively identify architectural risks and technical debt, driving improvements before they impact customers or operations. What you’ll bring - 5+ years building production-grade backend systems in Java, Kotlin, or Scala - A product mindset — you care about why you’re building something, not just what you’re building - Experience designing and operating high-scale, distributed systems - Strong SQL fundamentals — schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning - Comfort working across multiple technologies and services, even outside your primary language - Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture - Familiarity with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and asynchronous processing patterns - Practical use of AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, ChatGPT, LLM copilots) to improve speed and quality MNTN Perks - 100% remote within the US - Flexible vacation policy - Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses - Three-day weekend every month of the year - Competitive compensation - 100% healthcare coverage - 401k plan - Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care - Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development About MNTN Our recruiters will always reach out using an email address ending with @mountain.com OR @mntn.com. If you’re contacted by someone without that address and they mention a Reference Code (which we never use), then that ain’t us folks. Tell those trolls to take a hike–you’re waiting to climb a MNTN. MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct-response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue. Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns all with the fastest go-live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including Tarte, Decked, and National University. #LI-Remote

Company Description Veza is the pioneer in identity security, purpose-built to answer the fundamental question enterprises face: who can and should take what action on what data. Veza's Access Graph platform maps an organization's entire identity ecosystem across users, groups, roles, policies, permissions, and resources providing deep visibility and control over human, non-human, and agentic identities across SaaS, cloud, on-prem, and custom applications. With over 30 billion access permissions under management, global enterprises including Blackstone, Expedia, and Wynn Resorts trust Veza to manage privileged access monitoring, non-human identity security, access entitlement management, and next-generation identity governance. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Veza is now part of the ServiceNow family, with the acquisition closing in March 2026. The combination brings together Veza's AI-native Access Graph with ServiceNow's AI Control Tower and agentic workflows, enabling organizations to enforce end-to-end identity security rooted in the principle of least privilege across applications, data, cloud environments, and AI agents. For engineers joining Veza today, this means the scale and resources of an enterprise platform company, with the product velocity and mission-driven focus of a security innovator at a pivotal moment in the industry. Job Description We are looking for a passionate Senior Staff (Tech Lead) Software Engineer who will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining product features of our IAM platform for our Integrations. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to implement robust and scalable solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The Integrations team builds the services which ingest data from external integrations (e.g. AWS, Okta) into the Veza platform, enabling Veza's suite of next-gen features across our wide and growing array of supported integrations. You will be exposed to a breadth of software products and have the opportunity to dig deep into large and complex data systems as you determine an efficient, yet comprehensive way to represent each integration's unique access relationships in Veza's data model. You will also drive the scalable way of adding integrations leveraging the latest AI/ML models. Veza can only do what its integrations enable; you will work closely with all other engineering teams as you enable them to consume your integrations' data and provide advanced tools to allow our customers to easily manage their entire Enterprise ecosystem. What you will do - Design, develop, and build integrations with services like AWS, GCP, Azure and resources like Box, Hashicorp, Databricks. These integrations have to be built ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability. - Lead a team of backend software engineers, providing mentorship and guidance to help them grow their skills and expertise. - Drive the technical direction for assigned projects,defining architecture, design patterns, best practices and leveraging the latest AI/ML models for integrations. - Partner with Product, Solutions Engineering, Support, and customers to translate requirements into connector designs and prioritize the integration roadmap. Qualifications To be successful in this role you have: - Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry. - Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 8 years in backend software development, with a focus on data modeling, management, identity, security, or related areas. - Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Golang, Java. - Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures. - Experience in optimization, building of databases, storage layers, or distributed systems. - Experience with building pluggable modular software that allows code decouplings. - Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. - Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), caching mechanisms, and distributed systems. - Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. - Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $190,900 - $334,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location. Additional Information Work Personas We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service. Equal Opportunity Employer ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. Accommodations We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact [email protected] for assistance. Export Control Regulations For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities. From Fortune. ©2025 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license. - Employee Type: Regular - Region: AMS - North America and Canada - Work Persona: Flexible or Remote