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Backend Engineer, Core Systems
Midjourney · San Francisco Bay Area Hybrid · Posted 105 days ago
ABOUT MIDJOURNEY
Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small, self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI.
Everything at Midjourney depends on a small number of backend systems. They route requests, move work through our infrastructure, manage data, connect products to inference, and keep the whole platform running reliably as it evolves.
We're looking for a Backend Engineer to help build and operate those systems.
You'll work across the backend stack, designing services, evolving schemas, improving observability, and keeping production healthy. This isn't a role where you'll own a single microservice. We expect you to understand how the pieces fit together, make thoughtful architectural decisions, and leave the system simpler than you found it.
We don't have a separate SRE organization. Reliability, operations, debugging, and capacity planning are part of engineering here. As Midjourney grows, one of your most important jobs will be making sure the backend grows without becoming unnecessarily complicated.
We care more about what you have built than where you have built it. Great people at Midjourney have started in high school just as often as they have come from notable companies and universities. If you feel like you've got most of the skills we're looking for, but are worried that it might not be enough, reach out anyway. Let's chat.
If you're more interested in user-facing product work, see our Backend Engineer, Product role instead.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
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