Software Engineer

The role

You will design and build high-performance distributed systems and backend infrastructure. You will work on systems that handle massive scale across a distributed microservices architecture running on AWS.

What you will do

• Design and build high-performance distributed systems
• Design and implement backend infrastructure and API endpoints
• Build and optimize real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day
• Improve performance, monitoring, and reliability across the stack
• Own core systems and contribute to key architectural decisions
• Help shape a strong engineering culture focused on velocity and quality

Required qualifications

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend development skills
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems
• Solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale
• Hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and cloud-native services
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with lots of ownership
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability over outcomes
• Curiosity about LLMs, retrieval and the future of AI systems

Nice to have

• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes orchestration, and modern monitoring tools

About the company

Tavily is building the infrastructure layer for agentic web interaction at scale. Their API is designed to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and real-time reasoning in AI systems.