{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"6b66299146dc3e43c71f40fd","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6b66299146dc3e43c71f40fd","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6b66299146dc3e43c71f40fd","title":"Software Engineer - Backend/Distributed Systems","description":"Emerald AI |\r\nFull-time\r\nNegotiable\r\nAbout Emerald AI\r\nWe're at a pivotal moment for AI and energy. Demand for compute is skyrocketing, but power constraints are becoming a critical bottleneck. Emerald AI sits at the intersection of these two worlds, enabling AI data centers to scale without overwhelming the grid.\r\nOur Emerald Conductor software platform makes data centers flexible and responsive, allowing them to adjust power usage dynamically. This unlocks massive AI growth without major new infrastructure, while also strengthening the grid and supporting the expansion of renewable energy.\r\nWe're a team of experts across AI, cloud, software, and energy—on a mission to scale AI sustainably. We're backed by leading investors and partners including Radical Ventures and NVIDIA.\r\nLearn more about our vision, team, and backers at https://www.emeraldai.co/.\r\nAbout The Role\r\nWe're hiring a Distributed Systems / Backend Engineer to serve as a key contributor on the core backend platform powering Emerald AI. This is a high-impact role: you will drive architectural decisions, introduce best practices, build foundational infrastructure, and help guide the evolution of our real-time energy intelligence engine.\r\nYou'll work across ingestion, compute, storage, and system orchestration—designing components that must be highly reliable, resilient, and capable of operating at scale. As one of the early engineering hires, you'll have a major influence on our stack, roadmap, and long-term technical direction.\r\nWe're looking for talent ranging from mid-level to highly seasoned senior contributors with expertise in backend systems.\r\nKey Responsibilities\r\nBuild scalable and reliable services, and APIs, used by both internal teams and enterprise customers.\r\nContinuously optimize performance across GPU clusters, cloud infrastructure, and backend systems.\r\nImplement observability, reliability, and security best practices.\r\nProactively identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and strategic opportunities for architectural improvements.\r\nCollaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and energy domain experts to translate system constraints into scalable solutions.\r\nGuide other engineers through technical design reviews, mentorship, and high-quality code standards.\r\nMinimum Requirements\r\n5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend or distributed systems development.\r\nExtensive experience designing, building, and maintaining microservices architectures and distributed systems at scale.\r\nAdvanced system design capabilities with demonstrated expertise in performance optimization, horizontal scaling, and high-availability patterns.\r\nSolid understanding of system performance, profiling, and optimization.\r\nExperience with object-oriented programming languages such as but not limited to: Python, Go, or Java.\r\nPreferred Requirements\r\nExperience with AI/ML frameworks or libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and familiarity with MLOps tools or workflows for deploying machine learning models into production.\r\nUnderstanding of cluster resource management and scheduling systems (e.g., experience with Slurm or similar job schedulers) and principles of efficient resource provisioning for compute-intensive workloads.\r\nWhat we offer\r\nMake an impact. 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