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.