Senior Software Engineer Backend AI Agent

Cresta is an enterprise customer-experience AI platform that unifies autonomous AI agents, real-time agent assistance, and conversation intelligence for contact centers.

Palo Alto, United States
About Cresta

Cresta Intelligence, Inc. operates Cresta, a human-centric AI platform for enterprise contact centers. Its products automate selected customer conversations, assist human agents in real time, and analyze conversations to improve customer experience, revenue, and operating efficiency.

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About the Role

You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend architectures for AI agent solutions and proprietary models. You will integrate AI agents into customer solutions, improve reliability and scalability, optimize server response times and data processing, maintain availability, and implement security, cost-reduction, and performance improvements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience in backend system architecture, cloud services, or related technology fields
  • Experience designing and maintaining APIs
  • Understanding of gRPC and REST protocols
  • Experience with virtual agent or AI agent systems
  • Experience with database schema design, query optimization, SQL, and NoSQL databases
  • Experience deploying containerized applications with Kubernetes and Docker in microservices architectures
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Understanding of cloud security and compliance standards

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend architectures for AI agent solutions and proprietary models
  • Collaborate with frontend and machine learning engineers to integrate AI agents into customer solutions
  • Lead initiatives to improve backend scalability and reliability in production
  • Optimize server response times, high-volume data processing, and system availability
  • Implement security measures, cost-reduction strategies, and performance improvements

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Remote work setup budget
  • Monthly wellness and communication stipend
  • In-office meal program for onsite employees
  • Commuter benefits for onsite employees
  • Equity
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