AI Backend Engineer
Ketch
San Francisco, California
Today
engineering
About Ketch
We’re rebuilding the internet's data layer for the AI era. This starts with systems that analyze billions of events and make millions of decisions every day, enabling some of the largest brands in the world to leverage their data. Our platform dynamically engages users, orchestrates data directives across an entire ecosystem, and takes intelligent action on AI-driven insights. Protecting highly personal data across the data ecosystem requires infrastructure that can operate at the speed and complexity of modern, massively distributed systems. The result: real-time control and intelligence across billions of data interactions for companies, and direct control for you over how your personal data is collected and used.
Ketch is a well-funded Series B startup backed by top-tier investors and led by a leadership team with multiple exits. We’re passionate builders who work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers to understand their deepest data challenges and build elegant, scalable solutions.
Join us to build AI-driven distributed systems infrastructure that must never fail at massive scale, in the hardest runtime environment imaginable - agents that reason across hundreds of systems, pipelines that classify data flowing at enterprise velocity, and real-time intelligence layers that detect and act on risk as it happens.
Role Overview
As an AI Engineer at Ketch, you’ll build the intelligence layer that explains, governs, and secures how data moves across the modern enterprise. Ketch ingests terabytes of messy, high-stakes data from databases, pipelines, SaaS tools, websites, and mobile apps. Your job is to turn that chaos into clarity. You’ll design agents that reason across hundreds of systems, classify sensitive information, detect risks and data leaks in real time, and recommend actions that reshape how companies collect, store, and use data. These agents will make thousands of decisions per second across distributed environments where performance and trust are non-negotiable.
This is AI infrastructure at enterprise scale, blending backend engineering with applied AI to create fast, reliable services that deliver actionable intelligence. You’ll architect APIs and pipelines that transform raw data into structured insights, build feedback loops that get smarter with every interaction, and push the boundaries of what automated data governance can do.
We operate with deep personal ownership. You’ll ask sharp questions, work from first principles, and drive end-to-end solutions - from problem definition to architecture, modeling, deployment, and iteration. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with product, design, and customer teams to make advanced AI capabilities feel simple, transparent, and trustworthy within the Ketch platform.
This is a hybrid position based in our San Francisco HQ 3 days a week
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