Member of Engineering (Back-end)

ABOUT POOLSIDE

In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers.

Poolside exists to be this company: to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress. We believe the fastest way to reach AGI lies in accelerating software development itself, by reshaping the developer experience with agentic systems, coding assistants, and the frontier models that power them. We deploy these systems directly into the development environments of security-conscious enterprises.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

We were founded in the US and have our home there, but our team is distributed across Europe and North America. We get our fix of in-person collaboration (and croissants) in Paris each month for 3 days, always Monday-Wednesday, with an open invitation to stay the whole week. We also do longer off-sites once a year.

Our team is a multidisciplinary blend of research, engineering, and business experts. What unites us is our deep care for what we build together. We’re in a race that requires hard work, intellectual curiosity, and obsession; to balance this intensity, we’ve assembled a team of low ego and kind-hearted individuals who have built the special culture Poolside has. By building collaboratively and with intention, we create a compounding effect that moves the entire company forward towards our mission: reaching AGI through intelligence systems built for software development.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be joining the backend team to design and implement the multi-tenant cloud and on-premise Poolside platform. The APIs and orchestration systems that you will work on power all of our product experiences. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the console and product engineering teams as well as the applied research teams.

We are looking for strong and experienced software engineers with a passion for building reliable, secure, and performant systems.

YOUR MISSION

Design and deliver a secure, scalable, and performant Poolside platform that enables developers and operators to push the boundaries of what is possible with frontier AI capabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and operate the backend services, APIs, and orchestration systems that are the foundation for all our product experiences

• Participate in on-call and incident response, as well as driving continual improvements to our reliability and operational posture

• Collaborate across product, research, and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end product capabilities

• Collaborate with solution architects to continually improve and streamline how we deploy the Poolside platform in on-premise environments

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Significant experience building and operating multi-tenant backend APIs and systems at scale

• Strong expertise in distributed systems

  • Consistency models, distributed processing, fault tolerance, performance optimization

  • Message queues, event-driven architectures

• Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale

  • Familiarity with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, etc.

  • Strong hands-on experience working with Kubernetes, Terraform, observability systems (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

• Strong programming proficiency in either Go, Ruby, or Python (we're open to polyglot engineers from other languages)

• Strong ability to be self-directed and work effectively with ambiguity

• Plus: Experience deploying into enterprise on-premise environments

• Plus: Experience working with durable execution and workflow engines (e.g. Temporal)

PROCESS

• Intro call with a member of our team

• Technical interviews with members of our engineering team

• Team fit call with the People team

• Final interview

BENEFITS

• Fully remote work & flexible hours

• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays

• Health insurance allowance for you & dependents

• 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave

• Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances

• Company-provided equipment

• Frequent team get togethers

• Diverse & inclusive people-first culture