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Backend Engineer building Mem0’s AI-agent memory platform with Python, REST APIs, databases, and AWS. Operating reliable production services for enterprise customers and open-source developers.
Responsibilities:
- Design and ship REST APIs, including contracts, versioning, authentication, rate limits, migrations, and documentation
- Model data and schemas across relational and graph databases, enforcing integrity and performance
- Debug customer issues end to end using logs, metrics, and traces; reproduce issues, fix them, and create preventative guardrails
- Optimize performance using SQL tuning, EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, indexes, partitioning, pagination, and caching such as Redis
- Build Python services using async programming where appropriate, with FastAPI, Django/DRF, or Flask
- Develop background jobs, queues, and schedulers
- Containerize services with Docker and deploy on Kubernetes/EKS
- Operate services using AWS primitives including EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, and IAM
- Instrument systems with custom metrics, structured logging, and tracing
- Set SLOs and alerts using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
- Collaborate with frontend and research teams to scope APIs and deliver production features
- Report directly to Deshraj Yadav, Co-founder and CTO
- Work closely with the engineering team in San Francisco
Requirements:
- 5+ years building backend systems and shipping REST APIs to production
- Strong Python fundamentals
- Experience with async programming and a major web framework (FastAPI/Django/Flask)
- Solid data modeling and SQL skills
- Hands-on experience with query tuning and performance debugging in Postgres/MySQL
- Experience with graph databases (e.g. Neo4j or Amazon Neptune)
- Comfortable running services on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes
- Demonstrated root-cause analysis and ownership from incident to prevention
- Clear communication and effective collaboration with frontend, research, and customers
- GraphQL/gRPC experience is nice to have
- Event-driven systems (SNS/SQS/Kafka) and background workers (Celery/RQ) experience is nice to have
- Caching, rate limiting, multi-tenancy, and feature-flag strategy experience is nice to have
- Security and privacy best practices experience is nice to have
- Deep observability experience is nice to have
- Prior work with search/retrieval or memory systems is nice to have
- On-call experience and running blameless postmortems is nice to have
- Prior time at an early-stage startup is nice to have
Benefits:
- $24M Series A & Seed backing
- Early-stage startup environment
- High autonomy and agency to fix problems
- High trust and room to run
- Code review, idea challenges, and celebration of wins
- Opportunity to build long-term foundational systems
- Work closely with founders, engineering, frontend, research, and customers
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