Senior Backend Engineer
Posted 27ds ago
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Senior Software Engineer building AI-powered applications and improving customer experience on the DataRobot platform. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance usability and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Improve the end-to-end experience for building, deploying, and operating AI applications, from configuration and execution to monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Develop MCP-compatible tool frameworks that enable secure, observable, and reusable integrations between agents, data sources, UI components, and services.
- Build systems that provide clear visibility into agent and tool behavior, including status, logs, metrics, traces, and tool-call diagnostics.
- Collaborate with Product and UX to turn customer pain points into platform enhancements that reduce complexity.
- Balance flexibility and extensibility with simplicity, ensuring new capabilities improve the customer experience.
- Participate in architectural discussions around application framework, extensibility, and long-term evolution.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices around API design, developer experience, and customer-facing reliability.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building customer-facing applications or developer tools.
- Strong experience designing APIs and service contracts that prioritize usability, clarity, and long-term maintainability.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Java, Go, C++, or similar).
- Working knowledge of frontend integration concepts (component-based architectures, state management, API consumption).
- Solid understanding of observability for complex workflows (logs, metrics, tracing, error reporting, and debugging tooling).
- Ability to reason about customer needs, navigate ambiguity, and balance performance, usability, and reliability.
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Flexible Time Off Program
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)


















