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title: 'Backend Engineer (Senior+) at Miris'
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# Backend Engineer (Senior+) at Miris

- **Company:** Miris
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $103k–$287k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris/jobs/4400541009

## Job description

Building something ambitious requires focus, resilience, and a willingness to take on challenging work. At Miris, we believe that this work can be deeply meaningful when it is supported by a strong team, a clear sense of purpose, and a shared commitment to achieving important outcomes. We are looking for people who are energized by complex problems and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

The Opportunity:

Miris is seeking skilled Backend Engineers to join our dynamic and fully remote engineering team. The ideal candidate will have experience in implementing a website backend in Go, web application security, and network architecture. You will play a crucial role in supporting customers who use Miris to deliver 3D content for linear storytelling on various AR/VR devices.

As a remote-first company with a globally distributed team, we value thoughtful collaboration, accountability, and trust. We also believe that every candidate should have an ownership mindset and the opportunity to share in the success they help create, which is why stock options are a significant portion of this role's compensation package.

What You'll Do:

- Design backend services and the API layer for a multi-tenant streaming service
- Implement full customer-facing and enterprise-facing web server backend operating at scale
- Web app architecture and security
- Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and enhance existing codebases to improve global performance, scale, reliability, and maintainability

What You'l Bring:

- 7+ years minimum experience with backend services and API development
- Experience building high-traffic web services in Go
- Knowledge and understanding of distributed, highly available, and scalable cloud-based systems
- Knowledge and understanding of architecture and patterns for complex web services
- Experience designing and implementing RESTish APIs
- Experience working with containers and CDNs

Target Base Salary Range $102,693—$287,488 USD

About Us:

Miris is a cutting-edge technology company building the future of 3D content delivery at global scale. Our mission is to empower creators and developers to deliver high-fidelity, photorealistic 3D experiences to billions of users instantly, seamlessly, and across all major platforms and devices. Backed by patented innovations, Miris leverages state-of-the-art advancements in neural rendering, including radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, and new AI-assisted graphics approaches. Our platform unlocks the ability to deliver complex digital scenes, anywhere and anytime, without making compromises on speed, cost, and scale.

Compensation:

At Miris, our compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain top talent. We offer fair pay that reflects the value of each role within our organization and the broader market. We believe that every employee who brings impact should share in our success with equity options as a key component of our compensation package. Base salary is influenced by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and responsibilities of the role, internal equity across similar roles, external market benchmarks for comparable positions, and the candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account for medical and dependent expenses
- Flexible working hours
- Generous PTO Program
- 401K plan
- Technology stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Equity options

Globally, benefits may vary depending on a candidate's location

## About Miris

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Miris builds the infrastructure layer for streaming high-fidelity 3D content to any device at internet scale, making 3D as easy to deliver as video.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; hubs in the United States and New Zealand
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Sean Looper (CEO), Marlin Prager (CBO), Max Leitman (CPO), Will McDonald (CTO), Erik Smith, Doug Smith, Bryan Saftler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: 3D Streaming Infrastructure, Real-Time Graphics, Spatial Computing, Developer Tools
- **Target customers**: B2B — developers, engineering teams, and enterprises in gaming, architecture/engineering/construction (AEC), e-commerce, media, and XR who need to stream large 3D assets (CAD models, photogrammetry scans, game assets) to web, mobile, and headset users.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build the infrastructure that streams 3D at internet scale." The company aims to close the gap between 3D content creation and delivery, enabling sub-200ms renders with zero per-user GPU cost.

## Products & Services
- **Miris 3D Streaming Platform (Beta)**: A developer-first infrastructure platform that ingests 3D assets (up to 10GB in OpenUSD format), automatically generates multi-resolution LODs and compressed textures, then streams them via a global CDN with predictive loading. Delivers photorealistic 3D in under 200ms on desktop, mobile, and WebXR headsets — without requiring users to download a native app.
- **Web SDK**: ~18KB gzipped JavaScript/TypeScript SDK that integrates with React, Vue, vanilla JS, and three.js. Developers embed a component in their existing web app to instantly render streamed 3D models.
- **Native SDKs (Roadmap)**: Mobile and game engine SDKs (Unity, Unreal) are in development for beta participation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Successfully launched a public beta in March 2026 following a Series A round.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by **IAG Capital Partners** [miris.com](https://www.miris.com/who-we-are)
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2024, launched public beta in March 2026, and is actively hiring across engineering, ML, and business development roles. The company is building for a market where AI is rapidly accelerating 3D content creation but delivery infrastructure remains underdeveloped.

## Competitive Advantages
- **CDN Economics, Not GPU Farms**: Unlike competitors that rely on expensive server-side GPU rendering, Miris streams pre-optimized assets from edge CDN nodes, making the platform cost-scalable for high-traffic applications.
- **Zero Lock-in**: The SDK is built on standard web components and patterns — removing it doesn’t break the app. Integrates with existing three.js/WebGL pipelines without re-architecture.
- **Adaptive Fidelity Engine**: ML-driven optimization that analyzes geometry complexity, texture resolution, and material composition per asset, then adapts quality in real time based on viewport, device capability, and network conditions.
- **Cross-Device, No Native App**: A single asset streams in full fidelity to any modern browser — laptop, phone, or WebXR headset — without platform-specific builds.

## Strategic Focus
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Building a "developer-first" platform with SDKs for React, Vue, Unity, and native mobile, plus open engineering support for every beta participant.
- **AEC Market Entry**: Actively hiring a Senior Business Development Manager for the Architecture, Engineering & Construction industry to drive partnerships and adoption.
- **Real-Time ML Research**: Investing in applied ML for real-time quality optimization, predictive bandwidth allocation, and client-side reconstruction.
- **Global Infrastructure**: Expanding edge CDN footprint and predictive loading to ensure sub-second response times regardless of asset complexity or user location.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully Remote & Distributed**: "Work from anywhere" — the team is globally distributed with hubs in the US and New Zealand. Async-first culture with no relocation required. [miris.com/careers](https://www.miris.com/careers)
- **Small, Senior Team**: Backgrounds in streaming infrastructure, game engines, and creative tools. "Quality-obsessed" and built by people who "love to solve problems."
- **Compelling Mission**: "Build what doesn't exist yet" — the opportunity to build the infrastructure layer for 3D at internet scale, analogous to what video streaming did for media.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary + meaningful equity, unlimited PTO (14 company holidays + extended breaks), medical/dental/vision, disability & life insurance, flexible sick leave, home office setup stipend, wellness stipend, connectivity allowance, parental leave, and an annual learning budget for conferences and courses.
- **Open Roles**: Actively hiring Applied Researchers (ML), Web Graphics Engineers, Graphics R&D Engineers, and a Senior Business Development Manager (AEC). [job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris)

## Sources
1. [miris.com](https://www.miris.com/)
2. [miris.com/careers](https://www.miris.com/careers)
3. [miris.com/who-we-are](https://www.miris.com/who-we-are)
4. [miris.com/our-team](https://miris.com/our-team/)
5. [LinkedIn - Miris Inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/miris-inc)
6. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris)

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