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Senior Backend Engineer at Plot | New York City

PlotNew York City
On-site Full-time

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What You'll Be Responsible For:Manage our core data systems. You’ll oversee the flow of millions of enriched videos from ingestion to storage, analytics, and product interfaces. Enhance and secure high-throughput write paths. You will continuously diagnose and mitigate failure modes, ensuring reliable, observable, and predictable data ingestion. Design efficient data access patterns. Ensure that dashboards and analytical queries perform optimally even under heavy concurrent data writes. Distinguish between transactional and analytical workloads. You will guide decisions on workload allocation and create systems that prevent conflicts. Develop read-optimized models focused on insights. This involves creating partitioning strategies, rollups, and schemas that mirror actual data querying patterns by both humans and AI. Facilitate AI-driven analytics. You’ll influence how our internal tools and AI agents interact with data to enable complex analytical inquiries.

About the job

Why Join Plot?

At Plot, we are pioneering the future of social intelligence through our innovative AI-driven platform. Our mission is to empower some of the world’s leading brands to comprehend cultural dynamics, identify emerging trends, and effectively engage their communities on a large scale. As a rapidly expanding, venture-backed startup co-founded by visionaries from Reddit and Plaid, we proudly serve a roster of renowned clients, including Tory Burch, Lululemon, and La Roche-Posay.

Operating at the crucial nexus of applied AI and vast data systems, we transform millions of short-form videos daily into structured insights on culture and consumer behavior. Plot renders unstructured social media data comprehensible at scale, allowing brands to cultivate a profound and systematic understanding of trends, audiences, and influence.

You will become part of a dynamic and resourceful team where engineers take full ownership of systems — not just individual tasks. Collaborating closely with the founders, you will have the opportunity to shape the foundational architecture and make pivotal decisions that will influence Plot's scaling strategies for years to come. If you relish tackling ambiguous challenges, engaging in deep systems thinking, and constructing infrastructure that unlocks extensive product functionalities, Plot is your ideal environment. This position is also perfect for those aiming to evolve into technical founders, as we cultivate a strong founder’s mindset.

About Plot

Plot is at the forefront of social intelligence, utilizing an AI-native platform to assist influential brands in understanding cultural nuances and activating their communities effectively. Our growth is propelled by experienced founders and a commitment to innovation, making us a leader in the sector.

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