Member of Technical Staff - Backend/Distributed Systems

The role

You will be a key contributor on the core backend platform. You will design and scale systems, build high-performance services, and work across ingestion, compute, storage, and system orchestration.

What you will do

• Designing and scaling systems that interact with real-world energy infrastructure
• Building high-performance services and APIs that power core product workflows
• Tackling hard problems in reliability, data modeling, and system design
• Shipping end-to-end features from idea to production
• Improving system observability, performance, and fault tolerance
• Partnering closely with product to turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions
• Drive architecture and technical direction for senior candidates
• Lead ambiguous, high-impact initiatives for senior candidates
• Mentor and elevate other engineers for senior candidates

Required qualifications

• Ability to drive outcomes

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed systems or data-intensive applications
• Experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability
• Interest in grid systems, energy orchestration, and applying AI to real-world infrastructure
• Experience working on real-time or near real-time systems
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and turning open-ended problems into production systems
• Strong system design skills, including tradeoffs across latency, consistency, and scalability
• Ability to work across the stack when needed to unblock progress

Benefits

• Competitive pay + equity
• Stock options
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k) matching

About the company

Emerald AI sits at the intersection of AI and energy to enable AI data centers to scale without overwhelming the grid. The team is backed by Radical Ventures and NVIDIA.