Senior Backend Engineer at Instrinsic

Intrinsic is building a trustworthy internetThe internet, mediated by opaque algorithms, is fragile and manipulatable. Intrinsic is using AI to help rebuild an internet that’s safe enough to be free again. We apply AI agents to billions of events a day to reduce risk to millions of users from spam, scams, and abuse. We are hiring a full-stack engineer to help advance our mission of trust and scale our product.We’re Y-Combinator backed and have grown revenue 15x over the past year. Our customers span Fortune 500 companies and top-tier unicorns.You’re a fit if you’re:Serious about craftsmanship and opinionated about your workFluent with big data technologies, like Cassandra, DynamoDB, BigTable, or other NoSQL technologiesExperience with streaming technologies, such as Pub/Sub, or KafkaFamiliar scaling vector databases, LLMs, and the opportunity for building world-class features and user experiencesComfortable owning and shipping product features end-to-end to completionPreferred QualificationsKnowledge of rate-limiting infrastructureExperience in Kubernetes or container-based environmentsWhat you’ll doShip end-to-end features with timelines measured in hoursScale our product to new industries, across pilots, demos, and use-casesHelp build the fundamentals of our product to scale to billions of usersOur cultureWe believe in a culture of ownership, urgency, and relentless execution. We are fully in-person in San Francisco.What we offerHealth care: we offer platinum-level medical, dental, and vision insuranceUnlimited PTO, sick leave, and parental leaveUp to $100 in reimbursement for personal health & wellness expenses each month401(k) plan