MURAL

Staff Backend Engineer, AI Systems

MURAL$181K — $226K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience in production systems
  • Expertise in designing and operating distributed systems for complex workflows
  • Familiarity with AI, LLM, or agentic systems
  • Strong focus on production quality and reliability metrics
  • Proficient communication skills for technical documentation and cross-functional collaboration
  • Full stack experience or collaboration on frontend projects
  • Deeper knowledge of AI/ML evaluation and retrieval systems
  • Experience with knowledge graphs and entity resolution.

Responsibilities

  • Build core backend systems for Mural's agent platform
  • Design scalable services and APIs for AI agents
  • Develop the agent memory layer managing context and retrieval
  • Create infrastructure for monitoring and evaluating agent behavior
  • Translate product needs into backend architectures and data models
  • Define technical direction for agentic AI and contribute to strategy
  • Champion engineering excellence and mentor team members
  • Contribute to team growth through hiring and fostering culture.

Benefits

  • Health insurance options
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Flexible work hours
  • Remote work opportunities
  • Professional development and training support
  • Team-building events
Full Job Description
YOUR MISSION

You will design and build the core AI systems and platforms that enable Mural's next wave of agentic, AI-driven collaboration experiences.

Rather than building isolated AI features, you'll work on the core backend systems that power Mural's agent platform, including agent orchestration, durable execution, contextual memory, tool integration, observability, and evaluation. Your work will enable intelligent agents to reason over product context, act on behalf of users, and operate reliably and safely at scale. Our stack at Mural includes Azure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Build the core backend systems that power Mural's agent platform, including orchestration, durable execution, tool execution, memory, observability, and evaluation infrastructure
  • Design scalable services and APIs that allow AI agents to retrieve context, coordinate multi-step workflows, interact with Mural data, and act reliably on behalf of users
  • Develop the agent memory layer, including systems for conversation context, product context, retrieval, summarization, compaction, and long-term context management
  • Create infrastructure to monitor, debug, and improve agent behavior through traces, metrics, feedback loops, and offline evaluation
  • Translate complex, open-ended product needs into clear backend architectures, service boundaries, data models, and implementation plans that align technical capabilities with user value
  • Help define the technical direction for agentic AI at Mural, contributing to long-term architecture and strategy
  • Champion engineering excellence, mentoring others and establishing best practices for building reliable AI systems
  • Contribute to team growth through hiring, process improvements, and fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and inclusivity
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise designing, building, and operating reliable production systems, scalable services and APIs, and well-defined system architectures
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems for complex workflows, including orchestration, asynchronous processing, job execution, retries, event-driven architectures, long-running processes, and failure recovery
  • Familiarity with AI, LLM, or agentic systems, including concepts such as tool use, context retrieval, evaluation, or model orchestration
  • Strong focus on production quality, including observability, reliability, testing, security, maintainability, and incident response
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to produce clear technical documentation and collaborate cross-functionally
  • Experience working full stack or collaborating closely on product-facing frontend experiences
  • Deeper AI/ML experience, especially with LLM evaluation, experimentation, embeddings, retrieval systems
  • Experience with knowledge graphs, graph-based data modeling, entity resolution, or relationship-aware retrieval systems

The base salary + variable pay for this role ranges from $181,000 - $226,000 + benefits. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. .

About MURAL

MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. It enables people and organizations to work together visually, solve complex problems and design innovative products, services and experiences. MURAL's platform and services enable innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. The company has more than 7,000 customers and partners, including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, Intuit, SAP, Atlassian, Autodesk, and GitHub. MURAL is headquartered in San Francisco and employs over 300 people globally.
Learn more about MURAL
Size
300 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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