Staff Backend AI Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
10 days ago
Salary
$115.7K - $208.3K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend AI Engineer
Experian
• Architect, build, and own services for large-scale transactional platforms • Lead the end-to-end design of agentic AI workflows using orchestration frameworks • Implement these workflows using tool-calling patterns and multi-agent coordination on AWS • Write production-grade Python and Go services • Design and govern AWS-native infrastructure • Establish engineering standards: code review practices, test coverage requirements, CI/CD pipelines, and observability instrumentation • Conduct and lead technical design reviews for new services, integrations, and platform changes • Resolve performance bottlenecks in distributed systems • Guide proof-of-concept work for new technologies • Mentor and level up senior and mid-level engineers • Contribute to on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortem processes
Job Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a staff-level, principal, or equivalent technical leadership role
- 4+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production services on AWS
- 2+ years of professional Python development with command of async patterns
- 2+ years of Go in production microservices
- Demonstrated experience architecting and operating large-scale transactional systems
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems
- Command of relational and non-relational databases
- Proficiency with containerization and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience with observability tooling
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving company level improvements in engineering culture, quality, and velocity.
Benefits
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
- Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays
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