# Software Engineer, Backend at Krea

- Company: Krea
- What the company does: Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.krea.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/krea/b9157fc5-2e11-4b05-b74e-b881dab3aca2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/krea-software-engineer-backend/

## About the role

You'll work across the whole backend: the SvelteKit app and its Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse data layer, the Python services that run our ML inference, and the Kubernetes clusters that tie it together across multiple cloud and GPU providers. You'll own these systems end-to-end, from design through to running them in production.

## What they're looking for

- We care more about first-principles engineering than which languages or tools you happen to know
- You've owned real production systems end-to-end: design, monitoring, metrics, incidents. Ideally you have 4–8 years of experience, but we care about scope and judgment over the number on your resume
- You're comfortable across the stack and unfazed by unfamiliar code, and you have opinions about how to architect things that scale
- You write and talk clearly, and you're happy working without a lot of PM hand-holding
- Bonus if you : have GPU or infra experience, have run Kubernetes in production, or come from a creative background. A lot of us do, and it helps when you're building tools for creatives (but it's genuinely not a requirement)

Tags: Engineering