Software Development · 11 people
Senior Backend Engineer - Platform
Posted 17 Oct
What’s this role about? Build and operate backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that process real-time neurological data, and bring machine-learning models into production. Improve platform reliability and observability while supporting regulated medical-device standards, including cybersecurity, traceability, and change control.
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Company
About Piramidal (YC W24) Foundation Model of the Brain.
Piramidal (YC W24)
Bridge in vivo with in silico intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Build and run Python and Go services that consume, transform, and serve real-time streams of neurological data.
- Design, maintain, and improve data models, ingestion pipelines and retention for high frequency time series data, from raw neurological data, to all time series derived from it.
- Build and extend the APIs behind clinical workflows.
- Work with ML engineers to take models from research to production inference, and keep them running there.
- Make the platform observable and dependable: metrics, alerting, capacity planning, and incident follow-up.
- Help build software to the standards of a regulated medical device, including cybersecurity, traceability and change control.
Qualification
Required
- You can own a problem from an ambiguous start to a running, monitored service, and you can explain your decisions verbally and in writing.
- Real experience with event-driven or stream-processing systems: partitioning, checkpointing, backpressure, and at-least-once delivery.
- Strong Python, including concurrency (threads vs. processes, asyncio) and testing.
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration, preferably using kubernetes.
- Solid relational database skills, from schema design to query performance.
Preferred
- Go, especially for networked or low-latency services.
- Azure: Event Hubs, Service Bus, Web PubSub, Blob Storage, AKS.
- Apache Arrow, Parquet or other columnar formats.
- Video streaming, storage, and processing.
- Systems where sub-second latency matters.
- Data engineering or warehousing at scale.
- Model serving (PyTorch)
- Work in healthcare or other regulated software.
Benefits
- Base salary range: $250,000 – $300,000, depending on experience and skills.
- Meaningful equity plan.
- Comprehensive health coverage, including premium medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Daily lunch budget.
- Monthly gym subscription.
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