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AI Engineer - Backend

Traversal · New York, United States

About this role

As a Backend AI Engineer at Traversal, you will design and build scalable backend systems powering an AI Site Reliability Engineer, productionize AI agent architectures and machine learning algorithms, and develop high-performance inference APIs. The role also involves building observability tooling and ingesting and reasoning over logs, metrics, and traces at scale to support hybrid SaaS and on-prem deployments.

Skills for this role

PythonFastAPIAWSAmazon ECSKubernetesPostgreSQLRedisAmazon S3API developmentAPI authenticationAPI authorizationBackend system designObservabilityMonitoringPerformance optimizationInference APIsMachine learningAI agent architecturesAgentic AI systemsLogsmetrics and traces ingestionFull-stack systemsHybrid SaaS and on-prem deploymentsData managementTechnical leadershipMentorship