Senior Backend Engineer

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud Inc., headquartered in San Francisco and incorporated in Delaware, is pioneering the integration of AI with human intelligence through innovative hardware-software solutions. With adherence to the highest security and privacy standards including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA, Plaud supports over 2.5 million users worldwide since 2023, driving productivity and clarity in professional environments.

Why Join Plaud

• Be part of a fast-growing, bootstrapped, profitable company with a remarkable $300 million revenue run rate within three years.
• Shape innovative human-AI interaction paradigms at the forefront of technology.
• Engage with next-generation AI pro tools and contribute directly to global business scale-up.
• Collaborate with driven colleagues who prioritize innovation, teamwork, and client success.
• Advance your career in a culture that fosters continuous education and rapid professional growth.
• Enjoy competitive compensation, international exposure, and a creative, dynamic workplace atmosphere.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the comprehensive development of Plaud’s evaluation platform, including step-wise assessments, automated regression monitoring, and deployment quality gates adhering to robust production standards benchmarked against industry leaders.
• Design and maintain the data governance and security framework encompassing real-time masking of sensitive data, schema management, rigorous audit trails, data ownership protocols, and finely controlled access with guaranteed traceability, avoiding direct database connectivity.
• Develop reusable platform tools such as shared SDKs, workflow definitions, and APIs for datasets, models, and metrics to streamline team integrations and accelerate onboarding of new evaluation data sources.
• Drive platform reliability by defining SLA objectives, creating alerting systems, performing incident analysis, and establishing quality control mechanisms that validate evaluation results for release decisions.
• Identify opportunities to integrate AI/LLM techniques to replace rigid rule-based logic within evaluation and governance processes, including prototyping, validation, and platform integration of proven methodologies.
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, documentation, and incident investigation to boost engineering productivity and quality.

Required Skills and Experience

• Over 5 years of experience in backend or platform engineering with a minimum of 3 years managing complex distributed systems in production, demonstrating proficiency in Go and/or Java.
• Proven expertise in developing shared SDKs and reusable platform services involving Kubernetes/Docker deployment, HTTP/gRPC communications, fault tolerance techniques including retries, rate limiting, circuit breaking, authentication, and fault isolation, with production-scale operation.
• Comprehensive understanding of database architecture focusing on availability, transaction isolation, idempotency, eventual consistency, monitoring, alerting, and failure recovery.
• Practical knowledge of workflow orchestration tools such as Argo Workflows and experience building automated evaluation and validation systems incorporating execution, comparison, reporting, and quality gate features.
• Experience implementing secure data access strategies, incorporating access control, auditing, data ownership, retention policies, least-privilege principles, and sensitive data masking within regulated environments.
• Familiarity with modern data frameworks including Spark, Flink, Snowflake, Databricks, and Athena, along with data warehouse, lake, and governance concepts emphasizing security, traceability, and manageability.

What Plaud Offers

• An employee stock ownership plan granting substantial equity in the company’s future growth.
• A dynamic and impactful workplace where your contributions influence the future of AI-driven productivity tools.
• Access to advanced AI utilities like Gemini and Claude Code to enhance development efficiency.
• Top-of-the-line hardware options including high-performance laptops and Plaud’s proprietary devices.
• Engaging team culture with regular offsites and events supporting ownership, craftsmanship, and fast-paced results.
• Comprehensive medical and insurance benefits ensuring physical health, financial security, and career longevity, including medical and WICA coverage for all full-time employees.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Plaud is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of personal characteristics such as race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, and other protected traits.