Senior Backend Engineer - AI

Role Overview We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for Nerve team, our AI pod. Nerve team builds the AI layer of Solstice Analytics : Noz (observability AI teammate inside Solstice Analytics ), the Solstice Analytics MCP server, AI SRE, and LLM/GenAI observability. What You Will Do You will be working with the high-caliber team in some of the below areas: Noz, AI teammate: agent orchestration, tool execution, and the APIs that stream results back into the product; Solstice Analytics MCP server that exposes observability data to LLM agents, so any agent can query a user's logs, metrics, and traces; LLM/GenAI observability, so teams (including us) can monitor their own AI apps with OpenTelemetry. Why It Might Be a Fit 5-8 years building backend systems in production. You'll work across both Go and Python. Strong with Go (concurrency, channels, performance) and with async Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio), and comfortable designing APIs and data models. Requirements 5-8 years building backend systems in production Strong with Go (concurrency, channels, performance) and with async Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio) Comfortable designing APIs and data models Experience building distributed systems while writing clean and scalable code Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end: from problem discovery → design → implementation → rollout Strong communication skills, can write clear tech docs and explain trade-offs Benefits Remote-first, async-friendly culture Opportunity to help define the future of open-source observability Originally posted on Himalayas