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Backend Systems Engineer at Hark

Department: Product Engineering

Compensation

$170,000 – $400,000/yr

Location
San Jose, California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Hark is hiring a Backend Systems Engineer to build the high-concurrency, low-latency backend infrastructure for its AI agent platform. The role owns agent orchestration, tool execution, real-time streaming, state management, APIs, sandboxed execution, reliability, observability, and production performance. It requires 5+ years of mission-critical backend systems experience, expertise in concurrency, networking, distributed systems, and LLM integration, along with strong systems-level programming and cloud-native infrastructure skills. The position offers a US base salary of $170,000 to $400,000 annually.

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