Member of Technical Staff — Backend and Infrastructure

Job overview

The Member of Technical Staff — Backend and Infrastructure role is onsite in San Francisco, CA, with compensation of $200,000–$300,000 per year. The role supports an AI interactive entertainment platform used by millions of people daily. The role exists to lead backend and infrastructure work that keeps the platform reliable, fast, and resilient while enabling new features. The engineer will own technical decisions and address production issues across services and infrastructure, contributing to the platform’s performance at consumer scale.

What you'll do

• Build infrastructure for new features, including recommendation systems, model fine-tuning, and inference pipelines
• monitor production and respond to incidents
• ship fixes addressing root causes
• improve performance and resilience across APIs, database queries, caching, background jobs, and real-time connections
• harden the stack, including bot mitigation
• make architecture and capacity decisions
• improve deployment, monitoring, and recovery practices.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

backend engineering

infrastructure

typescript

node.js

postgresql

ai platform

production reliability

san francisco ca

$200k–$300k

visa sponsorship available

small team

consumer-scale systems

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of premiums covered
• 401(k) match.

Why this role

Requires 4+ years of professional software engineering experience and substantial backend or infrastructure experience, including operating production systems. Strong TypeScript/Node.js and PostgreSQL skills are required; H-1B and O-1 visa sponsorship is available.

About the employer

David Joseph & Company is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.