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Posted Aug 13, 2025Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API
at Parallel
On-site
Requirements
- 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.
- You: Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design.
Benefits
- 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'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.
- 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
Additional details
- ABOUT US Parallel is a web infrastructure company.
- 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 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.