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Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Platform

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Last seen by MeritLog September 10, 2026Source: GreenhouseSource version: greenhouse-job-board-v1

MeritLog read this listing from Together AI's Greenhouse job board and last checked it on September 10, 2026.

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Location: San Francisco
Occupation: Software Developers(O*NET 15-1252.00)

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What the role asks for

What you'd do

Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Together’s cloud platform
Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure
Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs
Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems
Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance
Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents when necessary

What they're asking for

5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservicesExperience
Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resourcesSkill
Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team membersSkill
Demonstrated experience with building and operating high-performance and/or globally distributed microservice architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)Skill
Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage, including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scaleSkill
Experience developing against and managing a relational database, such as PostgreSQLSkill
Expert-level programmer in one or more of programming language (Golang preferred)SkillPreferred
Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines.Skill
Experience with Kubernetes and containers preferredSkillPreferred
Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plusSkillPreferred
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experienceEducation

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Job description

About the Role Together AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle, combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building the next generation AI cloud platform – a highly available, global, blazing-fast cloud infrastructure that virtualizes cutting-edge ML hardware (GB200s/GB300s, BlueField DPUs) and enables state-of-the-art ML practitioners with self-serve AI cloud services, such as on-demand + managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters. This platform serves both our internal StaaS products (inference, fine-tuning) and our external cloud customers, spanning dozens of data centers across the world. Some of what you’ll work on: • Work on a distributed GPU scheduling system for the on-demand clusters product, Instant Clusters. • Build out a global management plane for managing our data center compute, networking, and storage. • Design and build new customer-facing cloud platform services, delivering killer enterprise AI cloud features. Responsibilities • Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Together’s cloud platform • Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure • Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs • Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems • Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance • Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents when necessary Requirements • 5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices • Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources • Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members • Demonstrated experience with building and operating high-performance and/or globally distributed microservice architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) • Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage, including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scale • Experience developing against and managing a relational database, such as PostgreSQL • Expert-level programmer in one or more of programming language (Golang preferred) • Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines. • Experience with Kubernetes and containers preferred • Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience About Together AI Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month. Compensation We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $160,000 - $230,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. Equal Opportunity Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. Please see our privacy policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy

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