Senior Backend / Core Engineer

At Vendia, we’re transforming how companies interact with AI agents. We make AI integration simple, fast, and secure, with built-in governance, transparency, and control at every step.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend / Core Engineer to help expand and deliver Vendia’s distributed AI data platform. You’ll own critical backend systems, ensuring scalability, availability, latency, and fault tolerance for our massively multi-tenant platform. You’ll design, develop, and deliver customer-facing functionality that enables enterprise users to manage and share vast amounts of operational data in real time.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement a cloud-based, fully managed data plane at the core of Vendia’s real-time distributed data platform.
• Build solutions that allow enterprises to integrate multi-modal data at scale
• Implement best practices including automation, CI/CD workflows, testing and quality controls, security, and performance optimization.
• Influence the vision and roadmap of Vendia’s offerings by collaborating with Product and Design teams.
• Partner with leadership to balance new features with rapid customer growth and engineering excellence.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience in distributed systems, with operational responsibility for mission-critical services.
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB) and serverless cloud architectures (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, or equivalents on Azure/GCP).
• Expert in Python or Rust.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, including serverless architectures.
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and operational excellence.
• Strong project planning, communication, and delivery skills.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Startup or fast-paced cloud environment experience.
• Knowledge of Apache Iceberg, distributed ledger technologies, or LLM / AI agent integrations.
• Knowledge of AWS Glue is a plus

About You

At Vendia, all engineers are culturally well-rounded:

• You collaborate and contribute while learning from others.
• You are relentlessly self-critical and data-driven, holding yourself to high standards.
• You are passionate about building tools and platforms that empower our customers.
• If you’re ready to help build the future of AI governance, we’d love to hear from you.

About Vendia

Vendia is creating the world’s fastest and most scalable platform for creating and running universal applications. Our cloud-based, SaaS-delivered offering enables application developers to work with real-time business data – across companies and clouds. By recreating the speed and ease of a conventional database, we’re tackling the hardest cross-cloud sharing challenges so that our customers can focus on what matters most: their business outcomes.

Our customers span industries – from automotive and food beverage, to travel, hospitality, and not-for-profits. They use Vendia to solve challenging data sharing and data integration problems: real-time supply chain and logistics tracking, settlement of physical and digital contracts, consolidating the data needed to drive AI/ML inferencing, and more. Our employees helped create industry-changing services like AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and many more. We are taking that expertise and continuing the tradition at Vendia. We build disruptive, innovative technologies that combine the best of Serverless, distributed ledgers, and massively scaled cloud-based services that deliver business value to our customers.

Vendia is a rapidly growing, minority-owned startup headquartered in San Francisco and Seattle, serving the needs of enterprises around the globe. Our recent $15.5M Series A investment has enabled us to accelerate our vision of multi-party data sharing, and we are growing rapidly. We embrace remote workers but also love interactive development. Our culture is dynamic, with a focus on rapid, iterative delivery and continuous learning from customer engagements. Most importantly, we are a "succeed or fail together" company - everyone here plays nicely with each other, a culture we’ve enshrined in our Kind Humans Policy, and a key requirement for all job applicants.