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Sentient Foundation is building open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) infrastructure and tools. The company is backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Pantera, and Framework, and is focused on enabling a broad community of contributors to shape AGI development.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain fault-tolerant core infrastructure for the Sentient platform. You'll architect and manage robust, performance-critical backend services on AWS and GCP, implementing serverless architectures and optimizing cloud resource utilization. Key responsibilities include building REST and Websocket APIs for AI applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams on feature definition and shipping, and designing end-to-end AI workflows including fine-tuning and inference pipelines for generative AI models.
You will also design and implement custom AI agent frameworks and multi-agent systems from scratch, deploy services with proper release management processes (dev to UAT to production), ensure security compliance (IAM, security groups, encryption), and write comprehensive documentation for reproducibility and transparency.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years hands-on experience developing large applications and designing end-to-end infrastructure
- Demonstrated mastery of Python programming language
- Expertise across AWS and GCP services including: Compute (EC2, GCE, Lambda, Cloud Functions), Networking (VPC, Cloud VPN, Transit Gateway, Cloud Interconnect), Storage (S3, Cloud Storage, EBS, Persistent Disk), Databases (RDS, Cloud SQL, DynamoDB, Bigtable), Containerization (ECS, GKE, ECR, Container Registry), Serverless (Lambda, Cloud Functions, API Gateway, Cloud Run), and Monitoring (CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, CloudTrail, Cloud Audit Logs)
- Expertise in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, Cloud Deployment Manager)
- Understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, datasets, fine-tuning, and AI inference
- Problem-solving mindset to navigate ambiguity in fast-paced startup environment
- Passion for building revolutionary AI products
