This role blends systems engineering, developer experience, and product engineering. We tackle complex challenges across the full stack, from browser-based interfaces to high-performance backends to Linux systems engineering. We're looking for engineers who have a keen sense of the product experience and how to power it with performant systems.

On this team, you'll have the opportunity to grow your skills across our infrastructure and product, and to lead end-to-end efforts with meaningful impact. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Build high-throughput backend applications and services, like streaming chat between user and agent.
• Design a collaborative "Multiplayer Computer" that lets humans and AI agents work together on shared shells, filesystems, and state,conflict-free and in real time.
• Develop infrastructure (frontend & backend) that empowers product engineers to rapidly ship delightful user experiences.
• Design and build durable, well-crafted interfaces between the Agent and internal systems, as well as external agentic systems (MCP)

Requirements:

• 8+ years professional experience in building backend services, systems, and platforms
• Someone who values simplicity and pragmatism,you think radically but ship incrementally.
• Self-directed and comfortable working autonomously.
• Collaborative and team-oriented with a strong sense of shared ownership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience across the full-stack.
• Experience building AI-powered tooling or products.
• Experience with collaborative editing technologies such as Operational Transforms (OT), CRDTs, or the inner workings of Git.
• Experience with event sourcing systems.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary & Equity
• 401(k) Program with a 4% match
• Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
• Commuter Benefits
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Autonomous Work Environment
• In-office set-up reimbursement
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
• Quarterly Team Gatherings
• In-office amenities

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You'll own critical platform infrastructure supporting 70M+ users and scaling to hundreds of millions. This means architecting the core data model and storage systems powering Gamma's business, building real-time collaborative editing systems, high-volume event pipelines, and public APIs while driving technical strategy for databases, caching layers, distributed systems, and observability.

As a Staff Engineer on the Platform team, you'll define engineering standards and best practices across backend teams while mentoring engineers on system design, scalability patterns, and production excellence. You'll make critical build vs buy decisions, balance technical debt paydown with feature velocity, and collaborate with leadership to shape our multi-year platform roadmap.

What you'll do

• Architect and scale core platform systems including databases, caching layers, event pipelines, and public APIs for 70M+ users
• Lead major infrastructure initiatives: database migrations, architecture refactors, and performance optimization at scale
• Define engineering standards and best practices across backend teams
• Mentor engineers on system design, scalability patterns, and production excellence
• Make build-vs-buy decisions and balance technical debt paydown with feature velocity
• Collaborate with leadership to shape Gamma's multi-year platform roadmap

What you'll bring

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure, and a proven track record of architecting systems that scaled through multiple orders of magnitude
• Expert-level proficiency in scalable APIs, databases (PostgreSQL, Redis), and event-driven architectures
• Experience with real-time systems such as collaborative editing, WebSockets, CRDTs, or similar conflict resolution approaches
• Strong operational chops: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance debugging at scale, with proficiency in backend technologies like Node.js, Python, or similar
• Product-minded technical judgment, with the ability to make decisions that unlock business value and user experience
• Experience building platform infrastructure at high-growth startups, or working with AI infrastructure or public API design (Nice to have)

Compensation range:

The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $230K - $310K plus benefits & equity.

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This means shaping the future of how millions of users interact with AI to bring their ideas to life while establishing technical direction for our most ambitious AI initiatives.

As a Staff Engineer focused on AI Product Experiences, you'll balance hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. You'll elevate engineering quality across the team through code review, design feedback, and mentorship while proactively identifying opportunities and misalignment within EPD.

You'll bring both data-driven rigor and strong intuition to decision-making, designing systems that balance security, usability, and performance.

Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.

Responsibilities

• Ship production code while maintaining strategic perspective, focusing on high-leverage, architecturally challenging work

• Partner with EM, PM, and cross-functional leads to set the roadmap and drive technical decision-making

• Elevate engineering quality and effectiveness, setting technical direction and raising the bar through code review and mentorship

• Proactively identify opportunities and misalignment within EPD and the roadmap, helping resolve them

• Design systems that balance security, usability, and performance while building delightful user experiences

• Operate in both data-driven, hypothesis-testing mode and act on strong intuition, switching back and forth effectively

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 1 year building with AI generative technologies (LLMs)

• Prior experience working with CRDTs/YJS, LLMs and image models, WebSockets, and streaming

• Familiarity with context engineering, agent development, and AI patterns (RAG, embeddings, subagents, tool calling)

• Deep expertise building complex, collaborative, real-time web apps with TypeScript and React

• Strong sense of craft with drive to build delightful experiences

• Strong communication skills and experience influencing technical strategy across teams

• High EQ with empathetic, reflective, self-aware, growth mindset that actively promotes psychological safety for the team

Compensation Range

The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $230K - $340K plus benefits & equity.

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You'll ship high-craft, intuitive AI features (including agents) that power Gamma's presentation product, own these systems end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability as we grow to hundreds of millions of users. You'll design and implement sophisticated AI workflows that integrate LLMs and image models seamlessly into real-time collaborative experiences, elevate engineering quality and effectiveness across the team through code reviews, mentorship, and establishing best practices, shape Gamma's technical future in AI and product, influencing architecture decisions and technical strategy, and build systems that balance security, usability, and performance at massive scale.

We have a strong in-office culture and work in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.

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