About the job
At HackerRank, we empower organizations like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft to recruit and enhance the skills of the next wave of developers, emphasizing abilities over traditional qualifications. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world's most pioneering companies, fostering robust engineering teams prepared for future challenges.
In today's landscape, software development is a collaborative effort between humans and AI. As this evolution accelerates, the definition of exceptional technical talent is evolving. We provide innovative methods to help companies recognize and nurture next-generation skills.
At HackerRank, we are passionate about the impact of our work, meticulously refining every detail to ensure our customers achieve remarkable success with products they truly appreciate. Our urgency and commitment to high standards drive us to deliver exceptional outcomes.
About the Role
This senior individual contributor role is designed for a backend expert adept at toggling between two core functions: (1) architecting platforms that serve multiple product teams, and (2) collaborating with teams to tackle complex, high-stakes technical challenges. You will be instrumental in integrating AI-native capabilities into our platform, including LLM orchestration, evaluation, cost management, and latency controls, while enhancing reliability, performance, and developer experience across our services.
Your role will involve collaboration across various product groups, articulating clear technical strategies, and serving as a trusted resource for your colleagues in terms of judgment, taste, and depth.
What You Will Do
- Align engineering initiatives with business objectives. Transform company goals and customer requirements into a concrete technical roadmap. Communicate trade-offs and decisions in straightforward language.
- Design and refine core platforms for APIs, data, and AI that are scalable, observable, secure, and cost-conscious (supporting thousands of concurrent assistant sessions and managing bursty traffic).
- Integrate AI as a fundamental consideration: managing request orchestration, evaluation frameworks, safety protocols, and data governance.
- Collaborate to drive impact: Partner with product managers and customer-facing teams to achieve tangible results.
- Mentor and elevate the engineering bar through code reviews, design evaluations, and hands-on collaboration; be a role model for others.
Who You Are
- A backend/platform engineer with over 8 years of experience in developing and managing production-grade services with a strong sense of ownership over outcomes.
- Proficient in system design and distributed systems, with hands-on expertise across cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containers & Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD automation.
- Deep knowledge in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, Ruby, Python, or JavaScript.

