Backend Engineer

Tagup is a defense AI company combining expert knowledge with artificial intelligence to revolutionize military logistics. Tagup's AI software directly controls large-scale industrial equipment and logistics systems, ensuring our customers get the best performance they can. As a rapidly scaling AI/ML technology company, we are looking to expand our team.

We’re a team of engineers and data scientists driven by our mission: to make the machines and processes that power the world safer, more reliable, and more efficient. Tagup's AI software directly controls large-scale industrial equipment and logistics systems, ensuring our customers get the best performance they can.

As a Backend Engineer, you will help create and maintain the services that allow us to deliver value to our customers. This not only includes building out our API, but also the infrastructure that it runs on. You will have the opportunity to work on tasks ranging from building infrastructure to support large scale AI model training, to writing high performance SQL queries that support our API, to developing high-throughput IoT devices.

Desired Skills

• You have solid skills in Python and SQL
• You have experience building and managing large pieces of cloud infrastructure as code, especially in AWS using Terraform
• You have built and deployed APIs
• You have experience maintaining databases, ideally SQL based systems
• You have experience with deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
• You write clean and concise documentation 
• You have experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Bonus Points

• Experience with compliance (SOC2, NIST 800-171/172, FedRAMP, etc.)
• Experience being on call and rapidly responding to incidents 
• Experience with ML/AI
• Experience with github actions

As a fast growing technology company, we offer all members of the team part-ownership through an Employee Stock Option Plan. We also offer health insurance benefits, 401(k) fund options, and encourage a team-oriented work environment with regular company outings.

Tagup is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment with us are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.