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Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

Parallel Web Systems · San Francisco or Palo Alto · On-site

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About Parallel Web Systems

Web infrastructure for AI to search, extract, monitor, and reason over the world's information. Backed by Index, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience
  • A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
  • Years of experience required will correlated with the internal job level requirements for this position
More about this role

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.

We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.

You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.

Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design. You like to reason about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics. You care about your work powering products and systems that millions rely on, and about APIs that developers love to use.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent...

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