Team8 Stealth Mode Startup-Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

We’re a stealth-mode startup backed by Team8 and founded by AI industry leaders.

We transform agent evaluation, guardrails, and optimization into a fast, systematic, CI/CD-like pipeline. We’re building the trust and reliability layer for next-generation AI agents, and we are deeply shaping the future of how companies build, deploy, and improve intelligent systems.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design and implement core components of our platform - from scalable data pipelines and evaluation engines to real-time observability and agent-monitoring infrastructure. You’ll join a high-caliber engineering organization built on excellence, ownership, and deep technical curiosity. This role is highly hands-on and sits at the intersection of infrastructure, AI systems, and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop backend services powering large-scale agent evaluation, monitoring, and optimization pipelines.
Build high-reliability, low-latency microservices that handle complex AI workflows and high-volume data ingestion.
Work closely with the AI and product teams to design new capabilities that push agent reliability and safety boundaries.
Optimize performance across data processing layers, cloud infrastructure, and API surfaces.
Contribute to technical system design, coding standards, and overall engineering excellence.

Requirements:

5+ years of backend engineering experience.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, cloud-native services, and high-scale data processing systems.
Experience building distributed, production-grade solutions.
Strong engineering fundamentals, ownership mindset, and comfort working in fast-moving environments.

Advantage

Experience with Kubernetes (K8s), Go, or Rust.
Background in AI/ML products, LLM-powered systems, or agentic architectures.
Experience with high-observability, high-reliability systems.
Familiarity with CI/CD automation, evaluation pipelines, or data-intensive systems.

Team8:
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