Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API at Parallel Web Systems (San Francisco, CA / Palo Alto, CA)
Parallel Web Systems· San Francisco, CA / Palo Alto, CA· $150k–$300k·
Role details
Competitive Salary · Generous Equity · Visa Sponsorships · 401K Plans · Daily Lunch & Office Snacks · Dinner At The Office · Unlimited Vacation · Caltrain Pass Reimbursement
Summary
Build and maintain high-scale backend systems and APIs handling millions of requests daily. Ensure reliability, performance, and developer-friendliness while collaborating in a flat, talent-dense engineering environment.
Job description
ABOUT US
Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.
We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.
Job: You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.
You: Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design. You like to reason about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics. You care about your work powering products and systems that millions rely on, and about APIs that developers love to use.
LIFE AT PARALLEL
Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.
We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:
- Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
- Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
- Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
- Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
- Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- Competitive salary
- Generous equity
- Visa sponsorships
- 401K plans
- Daily lunch & office snacks
- Dinner at the office
- Unlimited vacation
- Caltrain pass reimbursement
Why work at Parallel Web Systems
- Culture: Described as “fully in-person,” with locations in Palo Alto and San Francisco. The company emphasizes serendipity, flat organization, and a talent-dense environment where employees can learn from each other daily parallel.ai/careers.
- Engineering Focus: The entire engineering team is based in Palo Alto. Roles span back-end/API, front-end, infrastructure/scaling, model training, retrieval/indexing, and search ranking. They are “AI-first,” building and dogfooding frontier software parallel.ai/careers.
- Values: Own customer impact, obsess over craft, accelerate change, create win-wins, and make high-conviction bets parallel.ai/careers.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, 401K plans, daily lunches & snacks, unlimited vacation, Caltrain pass, and visa sponsorship parallel.ai/careers.
- Team Background: Talent is drawn from top companies including Meta, Patreon, Amazon Web Services, Waymo, Cognition, and Andreessen Horowitz. Alumni go on to firms like Google DeepMind, Kleiner Perkins, and other AI startups linkedin.com.