Backend Engineer, Core Systems

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate the backend systems powering Midjourney.
• Own parts of the platform from schema to service to deployment and health.
• Build tooling and observability to understand production systems before issues.
• Respond to production issues and turn each into lasting improvement.
• Simplify growing systems by reducing complexity and building durable abstractions.
• Partner with inference, infrastructure, and product engineers as the platform evolves.

🎯 Requirements

• Built and operated production backend systems under real traffic.
• Comfortable designing APIs, modeling data, and working across services.
• Think about failure modes and build systems that behave well under load.
• Own production, including debugging, observability, and tooling.
• Enjoy making complex systems simpler.
• AI tooling is part of your workflow; you communicate clearly across disciplines.

🎁 Benefits

• Startup pace with research-lab resources.
• Tiny team, large ambitions; decisions in production fast.
• Move at the speed of thought; iterate fast, ship.
• Own meaningful slices of a system reaching every user.