Member of Technical Staff Traffic Infrastructure
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Fireworks AI operates an AI platform for production inference and training of open-source models.
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San Mateo, United States
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About Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI provides serverless and dedicated model inference, model deployment, and supervised and reinforcement fine-tuning for developers and enterprises building AI applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will own the traffic layer for a generative AI platform, including proxies, load balancers, service mesh, and routing systems. You will design, deploy, and operate highly available networking services, optimize cost and performance, integrate cloud-native technologies, and maintain observability, disaster recovery, and operational standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience building backend or network infrastructure in cloud environments.
- Software development skills in Go, C++, Rust, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking fundamentals, and performance optimization.
- Full product lifecycle ownership from design through production.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable, fault-tolerant traffic and networking services.
- Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and establish infrastructure operating practices.
- Optimize network performance and cost inside and outside data centers.
- Evaluate and integrate cloud-native and open-source technologies.
- Own systems from design through deployment and observability.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing.
Benefits
- Equity