Backend Engineer ( India )

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility. You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected. The role: Our platform spans front-end, backend, ML, and real-time edge systems. In this role, you’ll design and maintain core backend services that drive data flows, reliability, and performance across the stack. Responsibilities: - Design and implementation of the APIs, databases and data pipelines - Ensure the system can scale to the growing traffic, have full observability and drive down the cost - Taking end-to-end responsibility over delivery of features, maintaining high SLA and debugging issues - Supporting a broader front-end, edge-computing and ML team Qualifications: - Experience with an emphasis on building systems of reasonable scale - Familiarity with and experience in Go or Python - Experience designing, implementing, debugging, scaling, and optimizing APIs, databases and pipelines as traffic grows to multi-TB scale - Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions (Pulumi, AWS) is a plus - Experience in monitoring (Grafana) is a plus - Experience in authentication (Auth0) is a plus - Experience working with distributed teams across time zones - Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English - Ability to work in an onsite environment What we offer: - Competitive compensation package - 100% Employer paid Medical cover for you and your loved ones. - Paid time off and paid holidays - Equity in a rapidly growing company - Referral bonuses - Regular team socials, dinners, and off-sites - The latest Apple tech and unlimited tools to help you build your best work We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness. Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.