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Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

Parallel

East Palo Alto, CAHybridFull-time$150–300K/yrPosted 1y agoVerified open 6 days ago
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At a glance

Compensation
$150–300K/yr
Location
East Palo Alto, CAHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Visa required • Visa sponsorship

Job overview

Parallel is hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API. Parallel is a web infrastructure company building AI‑agent platforms. The role involves building and maintaining a high‑traffic backend, ensuring reliability and performance, and stewarding a developer‑friendly API. The team works fully in‑person across Palo Alto and San Francisco, emphasizing craft, customer impact, and rapid iteration.

Key focus areas include Build and maintain the backend handling millions of requests daily, Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of services, and Steward the API to be developer‑friendly and easy to integrate.

Preferred (not required): Distributed Systems, Databases, Maintainable Code Design, and API Design.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Distributed SystemsDatabasesMaintainable Code DesignAPI DesignReason About Trade-OffsCustomer ImpactCraft ObsessionAccelerate ChangeCreate Win-WinsHigh-Conviction Bets

Benefits

401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

ABOUT US

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.

We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.

Job: You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.

You: Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design. You like to reason about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics. You care about your work powering products and systems that millions rely on, and about APIs that developers love to use.

LIFE AT PARALLEL

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.

We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:

  • Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.

  • Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.

  • Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.

  • Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.

  • Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

  • Competitive salary

  • Generous equity

  • Visa sponsorships

  • 401K plans

  • Daily lunch & office snacks

  • Dinner at the office

  • Unlimited vacation

  • Caltrain pass reimbursement

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