Brandlight

Senior Backend Engineer

5mo ago
WorldwideSeniorRemote
Brandlight

Senior Backend Engineer

5mo ago
WorldwideSeniorRemotebackendinfrastructureautomationmonitoring

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing and delivering scalable, reliable backend systems handling billions of data points daily for an AI visibility platform.

Responsibilities

  • As a Senior Backend Engineer at Brandlight, you’ll be a core builder with a strong infrastructure mindset, responsible for designing and delivering backend systems that can support several billion data points collected daily, with high reliability and real-time visibility.
  • This role is for someone who can own complex systems end-to-end, move fast, build from scratch, automate everything possible, and create production-grade infrastructure that scales.
  • Build and own backend infrastructure handling billions of data points daily
  • Design scalable services with reliability, automation, and observability
  • Enable daily monitoring at scale with strong SLAs
  • Build parallel execution systems to cut processing and report times
  • Deliver real-time monitoring and alerting for system and data health
  • Reduce manual work through automation, tooling, and processes
  • Own delivery end-to-end: architecture → production → performance

Requirements

  • 7+ years building production systems at scale
  • 7+ years Python, writing clean, maintainable backend code
  • Built infrastructure from scratch, owning it end-to-end
  • Shipped backend products independently, from design to production
  • Experience with high-throughput data collection + monitoring systems
  • Automation-first mindset: reduces manual work with tools and processes.
  • Strong communicator and execution driver across teams
  • Curious, low-ego, autodidact, with proven leadership

Conditions

  • At Brandlight, you’ll build and shape a new category at the intersection of AI, marketing, and commerce.
  • We’re a fast-growing startup led by repeat entrepreneurs, world-class engineers, and marketing leaders, all driven to reinvent how brands are built, discovered, and chosen in the age of AI.

Other

  • Brandlight is the leading enterprise AI visibility platform, built to help the world’s leading brands understand, manage, and optimize how they appear across AI-driven search, commerce, and advertising.
  • As AI rapidly becomes a trillion-dollar marketing and distribution channel, Brandlight is defining the systems that decide how brands are surfaced, trusted, and chosen.
  • Join our team and help build the next generation of tools shaping the future of brand management in an AI-first world.