Senior Software Engineer - Systems

Boson AI

$150K — $400K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in backend systems development and operations in a production environment.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems including capacity planning and fault tolerance.
  • Hands-on experience with data processing frameworks like Kafka, Spark, or similar for ETL workloads.
  • Proven ability to design APIs with a focus on developer experience and maintainable code.
  • Expertise in a systems programming language such as Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python under performance constraints.
  • Familiarity with full-stack development tools, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

  • Own and enhance core platform infrastructure for agent workflows.
  • Design high-throughput, low-latency distributed services for model APIs.
  • Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for API analytics and billing.
  • Develop robust internal SDKs with strong typing and clear contracts.
  • Architect memory systems for conversational AI workloads with efficient caching.
  • Ensure end-to-end observability through structured logging and reliability metrics.
  • Collaborate with ML and product teams for integrated service delivery under strict performance requirements.

Benefits

  • Health and wellness programs to support employee well-being.
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
  • Professional development opportunities for continuous learning.
  • Innovative work environment with a focus on cutting-edge technology.
Full Job Description
About the Role: Build and operate the core platform behind Boson's model APIs and agentic products. You'll own the infrastructure that every Boson agent runs on - API serving, state management, data pipelines, context retrieval, and execution runtime - and make it fast, reliable, and easy for product teams to build on.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the core platform infrastructure: API serving layer, state management, policy enforcement engine, and execution runtime for agentic workflows.
  • Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed services that back our model API products - including request routing, load management, rate limiting, and multi-tenant isolation.
  • Build and maintain downstream data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for API logs, usage analytics, and billing - ensuring data correctness, freshness, and queryability at scale.
  • Develop production-grade internal SDKs and libraries with clean APIs, strong type safety, and clear contracts that product teams can build on confidently.
  • Architect context and memory systems for conversational workloads - low-latency retrieval, caching, and integration with vector stores and retrieval pipelines.
  • Instrument end-to-end observability: define SLIs/SLOs, build structured logging and tracing, and drive reliability improvements across the platform.
  • Collaborate closely with ML and product teams to integrate model serving, voice runtime, and tooling infrastructure under tight latency and quality constraints.


Qualifications

  • 3+ years building and operating backend systems at scale - you've owned services that other teams depend on in production.
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals: concurrency, fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, capacity planning.
  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline infrastructure (Kafka/Kinesis, Spark/Flink, Airflow, or similar) for log processing, analytics, or ETL workloads.
  • Track record of designing APIs and frameworks adopted by other engineering teams - you care about developer experience and long-term maintainability.
  • Proficiency in at least one systems language (Go, Rust, Java, C++) or Python in a performance-sensitive context.
  • Comfortable working across the stack: cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containerized deployments (K8s), CI/CD, and production oncall.


Bonus point

  • Experience with LLM serving, agentic orchestration patterns (ReAct, planner-executor), or RAG pipelines.
  • Familiarity with emerging agent integration protocols (MCP, A2A) or orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
  • Background in real-time media systems (audio/video streaming, low-latency signaling).
  • Experience building high-stakes platform services (payments, identity, core data) where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable.


$150,000 - $400,000 a year

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