Senior Backend Engineer

The role

You will own core data systems that manage the flow of millions of enriched videos from ingestion to product surfaces. You will design data access patterns, stabilize high-throughput write paths, and enable AI-native analytics.

What you will do

• Own core data systems for video ingestion, storage, analytics, and product surfaces.
• Stabilize and harden high-throughput write paths.
• Diagnose failure modes and reduce error rates in pipelines.
• Design data access patterns for responsive dashboards and analytical queries.
• Separate transactional and analytical concerns.
• Build read-optimized models including partitioning strategies, rollups, and schemas.
• Enable AI-native analytics for internal tools and AI agents.
• Make architectural calls and write RFCs.
• Raise the bar for reliability and performance across the team.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience operating Postgres in production under real-world read/write concurrency.
• Understanding of partitioning, locking, autovacuum, connection pooling, and system failure modes.
• Strong systems intuition regarding bottlenecks, failure modes, and tradeoffs.
• Experience designing or owning analytical data architectures.
• Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact work.
• High ownership mindset for logs, metrics, and real data.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

About the company

Plot is a high-growth, venture-backed startup building an AI-native social intelligence platform. The company operates at the intersection of applied AI and large-scale data systems.