Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company focused on creating open and transparent AI systems. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the technical vision and architecture of their commerce platform, ensuring robust and scalable backend solutions that enhance customer experience and drive revenue.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the technical roadmap for Together's monetization and billing pipeline infrastructure, spanning usage metering, contract billing, entitlements, spend governance, and payments processing
- Lead architecture reviews for major systems investments, ensuring long-term scalability, correctness, and maintainability across the commerce stack
- Drive cross-functional alignment with Product, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams — translating business strategy into clear engineering requirements and system designs
- Mentor and grow engineers on the team through design feedback, code reviews, technical coaching, and setting high standards for craft
- Own data modeling and schema design for core commerce entities, making principled tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and correctness
- Establish and evolve API contracts in collaboration with client engineering teams, enabling high-quality customer-facing product experiences
- Champion reliability and scalability — lead incident response, drive postmortems, and systematically improve the resilience of commerce APIs and distributed systems
- Identify and reduce technical debt proactively, balancing pragmatic delivery with sustainable engineering practices
Skills
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant API-driven services and backend systems
- Demonstrated track record of tech lead or staff-level scope — owning system architecture decisions, influencing team direction, and delivering multi-quarter initiatives
- Deep expertise in designing relational database schemas and backend APIs that support complex product and business requirements at scale
- Strong experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams — comfortable partnering with product, finance, and non-technical stakeholders
- Expert-level proficiency in one or more of Golang, TypeScript, Python, C++, or Java
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems tradeoffs: consistency, availability, fault tolerance, and performance at scale
- Strong understanding of low-level systems concepts: multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and I/O
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi) and mature CI/CD workflows
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with payment processors (e.g. Stripe) and billing systems strongly preferred
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments a plus
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Startup equity
- Health insurance
- Other competitive benefits
Company Overview
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.together.ai.Company H1B Sponsorship
Together AI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2026, 19 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 3 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.