Senior Backend Engineer
Intrinsic is building a trustworthy internet
The internet, mediated by opaque algorithms, is fragile and manipulatable. Intrinsic is using AI to help rebuild an internet that’s safe enough to be free again. We apply AI agents to billions of events a day to reduce risk to millions of users from spam, scams, and abuse. We are hiring a full-stack engineer to help advance our mission of trust and scale our product.
We’re Y-Combinator backed and have grown revenue 15x over the past year. Our customers span Fortune 500 companies and top-tier unicorns.
You’re a fit if you’re:
Serious about craftsmanship and opinionated about your work
Fluent with big data technologies, like Cassandra, DynamoDB, BigTable, or other NoSQL technologies
Experience with streaming technologies, such as Pub/Sub, or Kafka
Familiar scaling vector databases, LLMs, and the opportunity for building world-class features and user experiences
Comfortable owning and shipping product features end-to-end to completion
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of rate-limiting infrastructure
Experience in Kubernetes or container-based environments
What you’ll do
Ship end-to-end features with timelines measured in hours
Scale our product to new industries, across pilots, demos, and use-cases
Help build the fundamentals of our product to scale to billions of users
Our culture
We believe in a culture of ownership, urgency, and relentless execution. We are fully in-person in San Francisco.
What we offer
Health care: we offer platinum-level medical, dental, and vision insurance
Unlimited PTO, sick leave, and parental leave
Up to $100 in reimbursement for personal health & wellness expenses each month
401(k) plan
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