Staff Engineer - Backend

The role

You will architect agent infrastructure and build backend systems for planetary scale. You will solve reliability for non-deterministic systems and drive technical direction for autonomous coding agents.

What you will do

• Design systems that allow autonomous agents to plan, reason, execute, recover from failures, and continuously improve.
• Develop backend and infrastructure systems supporting millions of applications and billions of agent actions.
• Create new approaches for validation, observability, debugging, evaluation, and fault tolerance.
• Set architectural standards across infrastructure, platform, agent runtime, and distributed execution systems.
• Invent new engineering paradigms for unsolved challenges.
• Influence engineering culture and mentor senior engineers.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years building large-scale distributed systems
• Experience owning architecture for critical production infrastructure
• Deep expertise in concurrency, distributed computing, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance
• A history of driving technical strategy across multiple teams
• Strong backend expertise in Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar languages

Nice to have

• Experience with AI systems

Benefits

• Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
• Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible Working Hours

About the company

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. The company has crossed $130M in Annualised Revenue and is backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, and Google.