Backend Engineer

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.

You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.

The role:

Our platform spans front-end, backend, ML, and real-time edge systems. In this role, you’ll design and maintain core backend services that drive data flows, reliability, and performance across the stack.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implementation of the APIs, databases and data pipelines

- Ensure the system can scale to the growing traffic, have full observability and drive down the cost

- Taking end-to-end responsibility over delivery of features, maintaining high SLA and debugging issues

- Supporting a broader front-end, edge-computing and ML team

Skills and qualifications:

- Experience with an emphasis on building systems of reasonable scale

- Familiarity with and experience in Go or Python

- Experience designing, implementing, debugging, scaling, and optimizing APIs, databases and pipelines as traffic grows to multi-TB scale

- Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions (Pulumi, AWS) is a plus

- Experience in monitoring (Grafana) is a plus

- Experience in authentication (Auth0) is a plus

- Experience working with distributed teams across time zones

- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English

- Ability to work in an onsite environment

What we offer:

- Competitive compensation package

- 100% Employer paid Medical cover for you and your loved ones.

- Paid time off and paid holidays

- Equity in a rapidly growing company

- Referral bonuses

- Regular team socials, dinners, and off-sites

- The latest Apple tech and unlimited tools to help you build your best work

We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.

Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.