Staff Backend Engineer, Internal Products

What this role involves

TwelveLabs is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to own and build internal products for model evaluation, regression testing, dataset discovery, and agentic context curation. The role involves unifying internal data and evaluation platforms, building secure access layers over petabyte-scale data, and integrating customer feedback. This is a hybrid, high-autonomy role, the first on the team, requiring strong backend skills and full ownership of mission-critical internal products.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• go
• backend
• system design
• data modeling
• api design
• large unstructured datasets
• full stack
• data platform
• lakehouse
• pipeline
• object storage
• warehouse
• multimodal data
• video
• audio
• images
• text

Requirements

• Level: staff
• Remote policy: hybrid

From the employer’s posting

WHO WE ARE: Video is 90% of the world's data. Most of it is invisible to machines. TwelveLabs builds the intelligence layer to change that. Our multimodal AI models understand video the way humans do — across sight, sound, and motion — and power production-scale AI workloads across media, entertai…