Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About this role

## About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.

We partner with leading AI labs and robotics companies to deliver high-quality, real-world datasets used to train, evaluate, and deploy robotic systems — where model performance is dictated by data quality.

## The Role

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build the systems that ingest, process, store, and serve petabyte-scale video and sensor data.

This is a true senior role. You will own architecture and reliability for production services that operate at extreme scale: heavy cloud networking, distributed GPU compute (thousands of GPUs), millions of GPU-hours, and massive video pipelines.

Ideal background: backend systems for video services (e.g., YouTube, Twitch, Netflix, TikTok, video ads/streaming, CDN/edge video, large-scale media processing).

## What You’ll Work On

### Video + Data Platform Backend

• Design and build high-throughput services for upload/ingest, processing, indexing, retrieval, and access control.
• Build APIs and internal primitives that make large datasets usable for research, labeling, QA, and model training.

### Scale, Reliability, and Quality

• Own service quality end-to-end: correctness, latency, uptime, capacity planning, and cost.
• Build observability (metrics/logs/tracing), incident response, and operational tooling that prevents recurring failures.

### Distributed Compute + Networking

• Build systems that coordinate large jobs across cloud infrastructure and GPU fleets.
• Make data movement reliable and fast: storage I/O, network throughput, queuing, retries, idempotency, and backpressure.

## Who You Are

### Required Background

• 7+ years of backend/software engineering experience (or equivalent impact).
• Strong system design fundamentals and proven experience operating production systems.
• Excellent debugging and operational judgment (you can find the ro...