About
With $107 million in Seed and Series A funding, we are backed by top‑tier venture capital such as NVIDIA’s NVentures, NEA, Radical Ventures, and Index Ventures, and AI visionaries like Fei‑Fei Li and Silvio Savarese. Headquartered in San Francisco with a strong APAC presence in Seoul, we are a global company that values diversity and innovation.
About The Role As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you’ll build the server‑side infrastructure powering our new agentic application layer. You’ll join a small, high‑impact team and own the critical transition from prototype to production‑ready platform.
Must be based in the Pacific Time Zone. Candidates may travel up to 10 % of the time annually for conferences, off‑site meetings, or other business events.
In This Role, You Will Backend
Design and build backend services for video processing workflows—ingestion, transcoding, 4K export, metadata extraction, and timeline operations.
Architect scalable, high‑availability systems to support enterprise‑grade video workloads across AWS and GCP.
Build and optimize APIs that power real‑time and async frontend workflows, including streaming data delivery and long‑running job orchestration.
Own performance and reliability for distributed video processing pipelines with low latency and high throughput.
Collaborate closely with frontend engineers on API design, data models, and streaming strategies.
ML Integration
Integrate and run inference on computer‑vision models for video resizing, scene detection, automatic audio noise cleaning, and visual analysis.
Deploy and serve ML models on cloud‑based or cloud‑native platforms, evaluating build‑vs‑buy for model serving and SaaS alternatives.
Work with the research team to productionize model outputs into reliable, scalable backend services.
Build pipelines that link Twelve Labs’ foundation models with third‑party CV models to power intelligent video workflows.
You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
Are based in the Pacific Time Zone.
5+ years building production backend systems with a track record of designing scalable web services and APIs.
Experience with video‑specific tools and frameworks (FFmpeg, AWS Media Services, transcoding pipelines).
Deep experience with service‑oriented architecture, microservices, and distributed systems.
Strong proficiency in Python for backend services, model integration, and tooling.
Hands‑on experience running inference on ML/CV models in production.
Cloud‑native development experience (AWS or GCP), including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless patterns.
Comfort working across the stack and making pragmatic tradeoffs in a fast‑moving product environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced API design skills (RESTful, streaming, async patterns).
Familiarity with model serving platforms (TorchServe, Triton, SageMaker endpoints, or similar).
Experience with MLOps practices—model deployment, monitoring, versioning.
Background in media, entertainment, or video streaming platforms.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) for production systems.
Experience with AI‑powered product features or agentic application architectures.
Even if a few checkboxes aren’t ticked, we still encourage you to apply! If you are a 0‑1 achiever, a ferocious learner, and a kind and fun team player who motivates others, you will find a home at Twelve Labs.
Benefits And Perks
An open and inclusive culture and work environment.
Work closely with a collaborative, mission‑driven team on cutting‑edge AI technology.
Full health, dental, and vision benefits.
Extremely flexible PTO and parental leave policy. Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years.
VISA support where applicable.
Compensation Range: $150 K - $210 K.
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Languages
- English
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