Job Title: Senior Backend Software Engineer

Company Name: TwelveLabs

Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/twelve-labs/48e4f4c3-67cc-4a01-adce-ae797f501026?utm_source=GLjdmx3BJn&jr_id=69b07b4bdfaeda6ff59a60e1

Job Description: As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at TwelveLabs, you’ll build the server-side infrastructure powering our new agentic application layer. You'll join a small, high-impact team and own the critical transition from prototype to production-ready platform.

Up to 25% travel to Los Angeles is expected.

Candidates must be able to travel up to 10% of the time annually to attend conferences, off-site meetings, and other business-related events as required by the role. This role may require participation in on-site interviews and/or completion of in-person onboarding processes.

In this role, you will
Backend
Design and build backend services for video processing workflows — ingestion, transcoding, 4K export, metadata extraction, and timeline operations

Architect scalable, high-availability systems to support enterprise-grade video workloads across cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

Build and optimize APIs that power real-time and async frontend workflows, including streaming data delivery and long-running job orchestration

Own performance and reliability for distributed video processing pipelines with low latency and high throughput requirements

Collaborate closely with frontend engineers on API design, data models, and streaming strategies

ML Integration
Integrate and run inference on computer vision models for tasks like video resizing, scene detection, automatic audio noise cleaning, and visual analysis

Deploy and serve ML models on cloud-based or cloud-native platforms — evaluate build-vs-buy for model serving and SaaS alternatives

Work with the research team to productionize model outputs into reliable, scalable backend services

Build pipelines that bridge TwelveLabs’ foundation models with third-party CV models to power intelligent video workflows