Hybrid Software Engineer

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• Job title: Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, GRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, MySQL, Postgres, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, Redis, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bengaluru, India

About the role

• Software Engineer developing backend services for AION's AI cloud platform. Collaborating with teams to implement high-performance, scalable distributed systems in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain platform services across AION's Compute and Inference platforms, working closely with senior engineers and platform leads
• Implement features for multi-cloud orchestration, resource scheduling, model deployment pipelines, and autoscaling systems
• Write well-maintained, production-grade code with proper abstractions, design patterns, and comprehensive test coverage
• Contribute to low-level design (LLD) including service APIs, database schema design, data models, and component interactions
• Collaborate with senior engineers on high-level design discussions, providing implementation perspectives and feasibility inputs
• Develop RESTful APIs and gRPC services for platform control planes, resource management, and inference serving
• Design and implement database schemas for storing platform state, resource metadata, billing data, and observability metrics
• Work with distributed storage systems, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) to build reliable platform components
• Build event-driven architectures for asynchronous processing, job scheduling, and platform automation
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for platform services to ensure production reliability
• Write comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests to ensure code reliability
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and learning from senior engineers' perspectives
• Refactor existing code to improve maintainability, performance, and scalability
• Document design decisions, API specifications, and operational runbooks for platform services
• Debug production issues and contribute to incident response and post-mortems

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience in backend engineering, platform development, or distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Golang—you write idiomatic Go code with proper error handling, concurrency patterns, and testing
• Solid understanding of backend systems fundamentals: RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and API design principles
• Hands-on experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) including schema design, query optimization, and transactions
• Familiarity with storage systems (object storage like S3, block storage, distributed file systems) and their use cases
• Experience working with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS) and event-driven architectures
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus, eventual consistency, fault tolerance, and retry mechanisms
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and basic Kubernetes concepts
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and practices (unit tests, integration tests, mocking)
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and their core services is a plus
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) or observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) is beneficial

Benefits

• **Preferred Attributes:**
• Founder-level ownership and bias for action.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to connect technical decisions to business impact.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Thrives in ambiguity, fast-paced environments, and early-stage startup culture.
• **Why Join AION?**
• Work directly with high-pedigree founders shaping technical and product strategy.
• Build infrastructure powering the future of AI compute globally.
• Significant ownership and impact with equity reflective of your contributions.
• Competitive compensation, flexible work options, and wellness benefits