Senior Backend Developer – Machine Learning Platform

Build the backbone of AI at scale

Want to see your work power millions of machine learning predictions every day? Join our Machine Learning Platform team and help bring models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), into production in a reliable and scalable way.

You’ll contribute to a platform that trains thousands of models and serves hundreds of millions of  queries daily, while growing your expertise in distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure.

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will:

• Contribute to the development lifecycle, including coding, testing, and deployment
• Analyze and help improve the ease of use, observability and reliability of our AI platform
• Participate in maintaining services handling millions of requests and LLM calls per day
• Collaborate with applied scientists, data engineers, and developers to integrate ML models and agentic applications into production
• Contribute to evolving our AI platform to support the growth and scale of ML models and agentic workflows for Coveo users
• Suggest improvements to existing processes and use AI coding tools to support your development workflow

Here is what will qualify you for the role:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development in a cloud environment (Java/Spring or Python preferred, AWS an asset)
• Good understanding of distributed systems and scalable application design
• Ability to solve problems and debug systems
• Comfortable learning new tools, technologies, and best practices

What will make you stand out:

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenSearch serverless or other vector databases
• Exposure to machine learning workflows or model deployment
• Interest in scalable backend services, large-scale realtime systems, model orchestration or realtime inference at scale

Do you think you can bring this role to life? Or add your own color?

You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skillsets are transferable.

Send us your application, we want to hear from you!

Join the Coveolife!

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.

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