About the Role
We are seeking a backend engineer to build the infrastructure for cutting-edge AI development tools. You will scale ingestion pipelines, evolve open source libraries, and ensure reliable, observable, and fast system performance in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship features providing deep insight into LLM usage and performance.
- Build a unifying layer to proxy, cache, and normalize calls across various LLM providers.
- Develop and evolve open source libraries for tracing and evaluating LLM calls.
- Build highly available real-time data pipelines for ingesting, storing, and querying AI usage data.
- Collaborate with product engineers to ship end-to-end features.
- Bundle and upload code snippets for on-demand function calls in LLM workflows.
- Support parsing and uploading attachments from LLM multimodal outputs.
- Implement role-based access controls and data retention policies for enterprise use cases.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience across multiple parts of the stack.
- Strong systems thinking with experience in infrastructure projects, designing for scale, uptime, and data integrity.
- Proficiency in modern backend technologies (e.g., Node.js, Go, Python, Rust, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Docker, AWS).
- Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar).
- Passion for making systems operable, available, and rock solid.
- Comfortable with ambiguous problems and partnering across the company.
- Clear communicator who documents decisions, shares context, and helps lift the team.
Skills
- Node.js
- Go
- Python
- Rust
- Postgres
- Redis
- Terraform
- Docker
- AWS
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Datadog
Experience Level
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary and equity
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Flexible time off
- Wifi & cellphone stipend
About the Company
- Braintrust is the agent observability platform.
- The platform actively applies intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfaces critical patterns, providing visibility into agent behavior and tools for improvement.
- Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust.
Equal Opportunity
- Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
