Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform Engineer at Fireworks AI

San Mateo, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

09 Mar, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Backend Development, Platform Engineering, Scalable Services, Architecture, Reliability, Performance Improvement, Developer Experience, Enterprise Features, AI Tooling, Systems Thinking, Product Building, API Development, Governance, Model Inference, LLM

Industry

Software Development

Description

About Us: At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI. The Role: You’ll be a core builder of the backend systems that power Fireworks: Our main web application Model and fine-tuning job orchestration Billing and enterprise features Accounts, org management, access controls Policy enforcement and governance APIs and developer tooling And many other cool things! This is platform engineering with product impact. Your systems will directly shape how customers build on top of AI. You’ll work closely with product, frontend, infra, and GTM to ship end-to-end features — not just tickets. What You’ll Do Design and build scalable backend services Own major product surfaces from architecture to production Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience Work directly with customers to understand pain points Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness Use AI tooling aggressively — we expect you to automate yourself You Might Be a Fit If You like building real products, not just infrastructure for infrastructure’s sake You enjoy driving initiatives across teams to get things done You think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and business impact You care about developer experience and clean abstractions You’re curious about AI and want to build where the future is going You want ownership, not task lists Minimum Qualifications Comfortable collaborating with both humans and AI systems (Yes, We’re Serious) 18+ years of experience helping humans solve real problems 2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models Why Fireworks AI? Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving. Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally. Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results. Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation. Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.

Responsibilities

The role involves designing and building scalable backend services, owning major product surfaces from architecture through production, and improving reliability and performance. Responsibilities also include shipping enterprise-grade features and aggressively using AI tooling for automation.