Sobek AI is building the secure nervous system for life-science innovation networks and inter-government collaborations, aiming to accelerate critical R&D and global emergency coordination. The role is to build and own foundational services for this platform, focusing on secure, high-throughput event ingestion, policy-aware orchestration, LLM integration, and observability.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of experience shipping complex backend systems in high-growth environments where quality and speed are not mutually exclusive.
- You thrive at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning.
- You possess a first-principles understanding of distributed systems: Concurrency, consistency, and event-driven architectures are your native language.
- You have expert-level fluency in Python or TypeScript/Node.js, and you're comfortable operating across synchronous APIs and asynchronous worker pools.
- You have a hands-on cloud background and experience turning architectural diagrams into reality with IaC and container orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship distributed systems including continuous event-ingestion, and task-processing pipelines (e.g. AWS SQS, Lambda functions).
- Expose clean and highly available REST/gRPC APIs that power real-time permissioning decisions and agent orchestration.
- Own orchestration engines that reliably manage complex workflows across multiple LLMs and other AI services, building the intelligent control plane for cost, latency, and security.
- Solve the unique systems challenges of production AI: engineering for non-determinism, guaranteeing data provenance throughout complex transformations, and building the operational hooks needed to monitor, debug, and continuously improve our AI systems.
- Bake enterprise-grade security into every service, implementing multi-tenant isolation, fine-grained IAM, encryption-at-rest, and auditable trails that meet stringent compliance needs.
- Own the operational excellence of your services by implementing and monitoring comprehensive instrumentation using tools like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
- Serve as a pillar of engineering quality, writing clear Architecture Decision Records and providing thoughtful code reviews.
Other
- You have a profound sense of ownership, taking pride in the operational excellence of your services and instinctively mentoring others through the quality of your work.
- You are a clear communicator and an empathetic collaborator.
- We do not sponsor visas for this role at this time
- Hybrid (Seattle, WA)
