Senior Backend Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Create Reinforcement Learning Environments that test an AI model's ability to design, deploy, troubleshoot, secure, scale and recover production-grade cloud infrastructure
• ▹Develop realistic scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, queues, durable storage, observability, rolling deployments and disaster recovery
• ▹Build reproducible environments, deterministic validation tests and golden reference solutions
• ▹Produce intentionally defective variants and failure scenarios to test AI model responses and recovery strategies
• ▹Document architecture, edge cases and operational flows for all developed environments
• ▹Collaborate with technical leads and project participants to refine environment specifications and acceptance criteria
• ▹Apply DevOps and infrastructure automation practices to deliver scalable, secure and maintainable solutions

Nice to have

• ▹Proven expertise with backend programming languages: C++, Python, Rust, GoLang, Java or JavaScript
• ▹Strong practical experience with DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• ▹Demonstrated ability to architect, scale and secure distributed systems in production
• ▹Deep understanding of networking, IAM, queues, durable storage and disaster recovery concepts

Soft skills

About the company

micro1 engages domain experts to help train AI models; this is a 20 hrs/week contractor role focused on building reinforcement learning environments for evaluating AI models.