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Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform Engineer

Fireworks AI

Member of Technical Staff, Backend/Platform Engineer

Fireworks AI

San Mateo, CA

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On-site

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Full-time

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5d ago

Required Skills

PyTorch

About Us:

At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta Py Torch and Google Vertex AI.

The Role:

You’ll be a core builder of the backend systems that power Fireworks:

  • Our main web application

  • Model and fine-tuning job orchestration

  • Billing and enterprise features

  • Accounts, org management, access controls

  • Policy enforcement and governance

  • APIs and developer tooling

  • And many other cool things!

This is platform engineering with product impact. Your systems will directly shape how customers build on top of AI. You’ll work closely with product, frontend, infra, and GTM to ship end-to-end features — not just tickets.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and build scalable backend services

  • Own major product surfaces from architecture to production

  • Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience

  • Work directly with customers to understand pain points

  • Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness

  • Use AI tooling aggressively — we expect you to automate yourself

You Might Be a Fit If

  • You like building real products, not just infrastructure for infrastructure’s sake

  • You enjoy driving initiatives across teams to get things done

  • You think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and business impact

  • You care about developer experience and clean abstractions

  • You’re curious about AI and want to build where the future is going

  • You want ownership, not task lists

Minimum Qualifications

  • Comfortable collaborating with both humans and AI systems (Yes, We’re Serious)

  • 18+ years of experience helping humans solve real problems

  • 2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models

Why Fireworks AI?

  • Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.

  • Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.

  • Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.

  • Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.

Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.

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About Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI

Series A

Fireworks AI provides generative AI inference and fine-tuning platform for developers and enterprises. The company offers high-performance API services for running large language models and other generative AI workloads.

51-200

Employees

San Francisco

Headquarters

$1.2B

Valuation

Reviews

3.8

26 reviews

Work Life Balance

3.5

Compensation

4.2

Culture

3.8

Career

4.0

Management

3.6

79%

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Pros

Supportive team and management

Opportunity for career growth

Interesting projects and challenges

Cons

Internal communication could improve

Career progression could be clearer

Work-life balance varies by team

Interview Experience

43 interviews

Difficulty

3.1

/ 5

Duration

14-28 weeks

Offer Rate

41%

Experience

Positive 60%

Neutral 21%

Negative 19%

Interview Process

1

Phone Screen

2

Technical Interview

3

Hiring Manager

4

Team Fit

Common Questions

Technical skills

Past experience

Team collaboration

Problem solving