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title: 'Backend and Infra Engineer at Aida'
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# Backend and Infra Engineer at Aida

- **Company:** Aida
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-02-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aida/d51420ff-6445-415c-8c79-91db9ce71865

## Job description

Company Overview Aida is a B2B enterprise AI company founded by Piyush Prahladka, former co-founder of Glean (a unicorn valued at $7.2B), and Atish Das Sarma, former head of growth engineering at Patreon and head of AI at Apple Cloud. Currently operating in stealth mode, Aida is developing deep AI assistants tailored for every role. The company is well-funded, having secured a significant seed round. Aida’s team consists of 20 members based in Palo Alto and India. We are seeking a strong Backend and Infra Engineer who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Must-have skills:

- Solid coding experience in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and other languages
- Strong background in Data Structures and Algorithms
- Solid system design skills, with the ability to describe moderately complex system design problems in technical depth
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Knowledge of at least one public cloud platform—AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with modern cloud environments: Docker & containerization, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation
- Experience with modern monitoring/logging architectures (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, fluent-bit, DataDog) and the ability to discuss these systems
- Strong networking knowledge: DNS, firewalls, routing, VPC peering, packet-sniffing, security groups, ports, tcpdump, DNS caching, etc.
- Solid Linux/Unix fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with network security and database systems
- At least 3 years of relevant experience

Nice to have:

- Prior startup experience

Other:

- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS or a related field with a strong academic background
- Competitive pay and benefits

## About Aida

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aida provides an AI Chief of Staff for revenue teams that captures commitments across email, CRM, calls, and Slack to automate follow-ups, CRM updates, and risk detection.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $11.2M in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Piyush Prahladka (Co-Founder & CEO), Atish Das Sarma (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered sales enablement / Revenue Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B sales teams (SMB to Enterprise), with integrations into Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail, Slack, Zoom, Gong, etc.
- **Mission or purpose**: To give every sales rep the leverage of an AI chief of staff, making every move visible, intentional, and lightning fast so teams close more revenue.

## Products & Services
- **Aida (AI Chief of Staff for Sales Reps)**: SaaS platform that automatically fills CRM fields from conversations, drafts call recaps and follow-ups, captures tasks and risks across Slack, calls, CRM, and email, and provides nudges when deals are at risk. Reduces deal admin time by 90% and improves forecast accuracy to within 5%.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $11.2M total funding (Seed round, October 2025) – note: conflicting reports (Tracxn lists the company as unfunded as of May 2026, but LinkedIn and the company’s own website indicate the seed round occurred)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: One investor in the seed round (name not publicly disclosed); integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail, Slack, Zoom, Gong; partnership with Straiker (agentic AI security company)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount growth of +5.6% monthly (LinkedIn); 8,781 LinkedIn followers; presence in US, India, and Canada; benchmarked against Claude showing 22% better performance on five dimensions; new seller training time cut in half.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Moat**: Captures commitments across all communication channels (email, CRM, calls, Slack) and automates the entire follow-up and CRM update workflow. Deep integrations with existing enterprise stacks (no rip-and-replace). Enterprise-grade security trusted by large firms. Reduces admin time by 90% and improves forecast accuracy, creating stickiness.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include expanding enterprise customer base, improving AI model performance, and reducing deal cycle time. The company is actively hiring engineering talent (AI, backend, frontend) to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, fast-growing team (22–36 employees) with a focus on AI innovation and measurable impact on sales teams. Remote-friendly with roles listed as “Bay Area (Palo Alto) · Remote.”
- **Perks/Engineering Culture**: Work on cutting-edge AI (LLMs, NLP) with a technical stack including Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Java, JavaScript. Opportunity to shape a product that has bold ambitions to “10x the aura of your sales team.” Alumni from top companies (Apple, Glean, Sprinklr, Notion) and universities (Stanford).
- **Open Roles**: AI Engineer, Frontend/Fullstack Engineer, Backend and Infra Engineer (all remote-friendly).

## Sources
1. [getaida.com](https://getaida.com/) – Product features, mission, and value propositions.
2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getaida) – Employee count, funding, headcount growth, company updates.
3. [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/aida/__TtMrRY6hLWOoMDmnkuEM8bIW1Zg1e4sLKJjzDSBvMLI) – Conflicting funding data, company profile, and competitor landscape.
4. [JobAlmanac](https://www.jobalmanac.com/companies/getaida) – Open job listings and remote policy.

## Other roles at Aida

- [AI Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-engineer-aida-palo-alto-2j709wb5q1se) — Palo Alto, CA
- [Frontend/Fullstack Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/frontend-fullstack-engineer-aida-palo-alto-9r39jccc1zec) — Palo Alto, CA