Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform
About TypeSafe
TypeSafe is an AI lab building intelligence beyond chat: AI designed to work inside software and power real-world automation. Our mission is to make intelligence composable-dependable enough for builders to invoke, inspect, constrain, and layer into production systems.
Today’s models are remarkably capable, but that intelligence is still hard to build on. We’re rethinking the AI stack from first principles so software can branch on meaning, judgment, and intent while code continues to handle exact computation.
We’re a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR. We care about technical rigor, real-world impact, and building systems people can trust. Join us to help turn today’s intelligence into the foundation for a new generation of software.
About the role
As a senior backend engineer, you will join the team responsible for building and maintaining TypeSafe's API platform for inference. These APIs will be user facing, latency sensitive, and (once we ship) have uptime, reliability and backwards compatibility requirements. You'll be wearing many different hats and working across different levels in our inference system, with particular depth in distributed systems and networking. Responsibilities include:
Define APIs for a new kind of AI inference experience and iterate on the design to ensure they are delightful to use
Create robust infrastructure for serving inference across multiple cloud providers
Define abstractions that will serve us moving forward as our billing needs and business logic needs grow
Work on exposing new model features to users
Our tech stack is primarily Python. We also use TypeScript, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS for frontend, with Kubernetes for orchestration. We empower developers to use any tooling they find helpful for getting their job done, including Claude Code and Codex.
We expect that you
Are responsible, ownership-inclined, and a team player - you believe there is no such thing as "other people's code", and will complain only the normal amount about pager duty
Have experience designing storage abstractions for scaled backend systems
Have experience designing resilient systems and improving on-call experience on production systems
Collaborate well with others on technical and product design, advocating for what you need, and adjusting specs to changing requirements and feedback
Are mission aligned and excited to go all-in
Love being part of a team
We are hoping that you
Have previously built big things
Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (3+ years of infra/backend) with a team with rigorous engineering standards
Have shipped backend services at scale with continuous delivery and uptime SLAs of at least 3 9s
Have designed and operated a developer-facing API service
Have experienced LLMs' capabilities and limitations from implementing them in the past
Life at TypeSafe
We’re a small, flat, close-knit team working to make intelligence dependable enough to become part of everyday software. We work fully in person from our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care deeply about the work.
We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won’t stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow-as a team and as individuals.
We value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don’t try to be machines.
We want TypeSafe to be the place where you do the most impactful work of your career and help define our future as a company.
We provide
Base salary of $150k-250k plus equity, based on leveling
100% covered health insurance
Daily lunch and dinner
Visa sponsorships
401K plans