Location: Santa Ana, California - on-site
Employmenttype: Full-time
Salary: $172,000 - $220,000
Role summaryWe are seeking a Staff Engineer to take ownership of the AI generation services, provider integrations, billing integrity, tenant security and overall platform reliability underpinning created.ai. The role is Python and GCP-first, with sufficient TypeScript proficiency to trace and modify cross-service contracts.
This is a senior individual contributor position with architectural authority over the platform layer.
Key responsibilities
- Own the design, delivery and operation of AI generation services and all third-party provider integrations
- Ensure billing and usage-metering integrity across the platform, including reconciliation and credit accounting
- Maintain tenant isolation and platform security controls
- Lead reliability engineering: failure handling, degradation strategy, capacity and incident response
- Strengthen deployment safeguards, observability and cost attribution
- Set technical standards for the Python services and mentor engineers working within them
Requirements- Python 3.12 with FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio and strict typing in production
- Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, GCS, Firestore, Cloud SQL/Postgres
- Demonstrated experience with webhooks, queues, retries, idempotency, dead-letter queues and durable asynchronous jobs
- SQLAlchemy and Alembic, together with billing or usage-metering experience
- Infrastructure and delivery tooling: Terraform, IAM/OIDC, Secret Manager, CI/CD
- Production integrations with image, video or LLM providers
- Working proficiency in NestJS/TypeScript sufficient to modify cross-service contracts
- Strong background in observability, cost tracking and incident debugging
- Fluency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or comparable), including the ability to scope work for them, review their output critically and maintain architectural coherence across AI-assisted changes
Benefits- Health, Dental, Vision
- 401k Plan
- PTO Plan
- 14 observed local holidays
- Stock options
- Amazing, pet-friendly office environment
- Equipment budget and learning allowance
- Real technical ownership within a small engineering team, and visible impact on a commercially active AI product with real users and real scale constraints
- Direct involvement in product decisions - the team is small enough that there is nowhere to hide, in both directions
