Backend Engineer
At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.
You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.
The role:
Our platform spans front-end, backend, ML, and real-time edge systems. In this role, you’ll design and maintain core backend services that drive data flows, reliability, and performance across the stack.
Responsibilities:
Design and implementation of the APIs, databases and data pipelines
Ensure the system can scale to the growing traffic, have full observability and drive down the cost
Taking end-to-end responsibility over delivery of features, maintaining high SLA and debugging issues
Supporting a broader front-end, edge-computing and ML team
Skills and qualifications:
Experience with an emphasis on building systems of reasonable scale
Familiarity with and experience in Go or Python
Experience designing, implementing, debugging, scaling, and optimizing APIs, databases and pipelines as traffic grows to multi-TB scale
Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions (Pulumi, AWS) is a plus
Experience in monitoring (Grafana) is a plus
Experience in authentication (Auth0) is a plus
Experience working with distributed teams across time zones
Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English
Ability to work in an onsite environment
What we offer:
Competitive compensation package
100% Employer paid Medical cover for you and your loved ones.
Paid time off and paid holidays
Equity in a rapidly growing company
Referral bonuses
Regular team socials, dinners, and off-sites
The latest Apple tech and unlimited tools to help you build your best work
We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.
Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.