Backend Engineer

We’re hiring a Backend Engineer to scale the systems that power Antimetal’s investigation and automation engine.

This role is core to our product. You’ll build core backend and platform services, design for scale, and ensure our foundation can support rapid product growth.

About Antimetal

Antimetal is building the future of infrastructure management . We're starting by creating a platform that investigates, resolves, and prevents issues—giving engineers their time back to focus on what they do best: building great products.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and scale Antimetal’s AI workflow engine, the system that ingests metrics, logs, traces, and code to run investigations and generate explainable outputs.

• Design and implement distributed services that orchestrate data pipelines, automate investigations, and enable incident response at scale.

• Model and optimize relational data in SQL to support high-throughput investigations and reporting.

• Harden the platform for reliability by improving performance, reducing failure modes, and ensuring the system scales with customer demand.

• Collaborate across product and infrastructure, translating ambiguous requirements into production-ready backend and platform features.

• Set engineering standards for writing, communication, and system design, influencing how the entire product is built.

What you bring:

• 4-8 years of engineering experience, with 2+ years in a hyperscaling environment, see a function scale seeing 1-2x OOM

• Experience building and scaling distributed systems

• Proven backend API/data services expertise

• Oncall experience with production systems

• Comfort with ambiguity and ownership

• Excellent writing and communication skills

• Expertise with TypeScript in production environments

Bonus:

• Background in observability, monitoring, or incident response

• Exposure to AI/ML systems

• Experience at early-stage startups building dev tools

• Experience working on product without a product manager

Who you are:

• Identify as a builder.

• Are excited to work in-person from our new and spacious office in New York.

• Love working in a startup environment (experience in a startup or obsession with going zero-to-one).

• Enjoy working with people who are ambitious, caring, and think in systems.

• Thrive in a fast-paced iterative environment where experimentation is essential.

What we bring:

• Pay & ownership — Competitive salary with generous equity grants.

• Full coverage + retirement — Fully covered health, dental, and vision, plus retirement benefits.

• Unlimited PTO — Take the time you need to recharge.

• Dinner on late nights — Working late? Dinner is on us.

• Fitness stipend — Monthly support for your health and wellness.

• Tools of the trade — Any equipment you need to do your best work.

• Commute perks — Citi Bike + train benefits.

Interview process

1. Application Review – Send us your stuff, and a quick note on why you're excited.

2. Intro Chat : Share what you're looking for next and learn more about what we're building.

3. Founder Interview: Talk with one of our founders in more detail about the role

4. Technical Interview: We’ll have you complete a short exercise specific to the role.

5. Onsite: Come onsite and meet the team through a series of 1:1 interviews.

6. Decision – We’ll move fast.