Backend Engineer - Distributed Data Platform

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Join the platform team at a well-funded AI/ML data analytics startup building an agentic data lakehouse. You'll help shape the data foundation that enables AI-driven analytics at scale. This is a high-impact, zero-to-one engineering role at an early-stage company.

Key Highlights
Agentic Semantic Layer
Distributed Agent Orchestration
Agentic Data Engineering
Key Responsibilities
Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly
Design and implement orchestration systems for distributed agents
Architect AI-centric ETL pipelines for data lakehouses
Technical Skills Required
Golang gRPC/ConnectRPC Trino Kubernetes DuckDB PostgreSQL
Benefits & Perks
Salary: $200,000 – $350,000 USD annually
Visa sponsorship available
Nice to Have
Ability to contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend beyond core backend work
Background at companies working on data warehousing, BI tooling, or AI/ML analytics platforms

Job Description


About The Role

Join the platform team at a well-funded AI/ML data analytics startup building an agentic data lakehouse that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data. You'll help shape the data foundation that enables AI-driven analytics at scale — without heavy schema migrations or data movement. This is a high-impact, zero-to-one engineering role at an early-stage company backed by top-tier investors.

What You'll Do

  • Agentic Semantic Layer: Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly and the guardrails to prove their results — turning AI-generated queries into something teams can actually rely on.
  • Distributed Agent Orchestration: Design and implement orchestration systems for distributed agents, including API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth passthrough, model routing, scheduling, and token optimization.
  • Agentic Data Engineering: Architect AI-centric ETL pipelines for data lakehouses, enabling large-scale analytics for organizations with minimal data engineering resources.
  • Contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend as needed in a small, fast-moving team.

What We're Looking For

Required

  • 4+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Golang (dealbreaker).
  • Experience with gRPC/ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in a distributed data platform environment.
  • Experience at early-stage startups or building products from zero to one (VC-backed preferred).
  • Strong CS fundamentals; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
  • Experience with data visualization tools, data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies.

Nice To Have

  • Ability to contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend beyond core backend work.
  • Background at companies working on data warehousing, BI tooling, or AI/ML analytics platforms.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $200,000 – $350,000 USD annually
  • Visa sponsorship available

Location

This role is on-site in New York City, NY. Candidates must be willing and able to work from the NYC office full-time.

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