Senior DevOps & Backend Engineer (AI / LegalTech / SF)
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Base pay range $140,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr
Tl;dr — Join Callidus, the most advanced legal generative‑AI platform, as a hands‑on DevOps & Backend Engineer. Work with state‑of‑the‑art AI, an experienced founder‑led team, and a fresh funding round. Competitive total comp. Hustle culture. SF.
About Callidus
We are entering the golden era of AI. Over the next 5-10 years, breakthroughs will drive a completely new world. Callidus is on a mission to transform the $1T global legal market and we're well on our way.
Callidus is the most advanced legal generative AI platform on the market today. We offer a uniquely powerful platform, enabling lawyers (as one example) to draft a full 30‑page legal brief in :10minutes—saving about a week of effort. We are an engineering‑led organization that empowers talent to build collaboratively toward our mission.
More than 1,000 paying lawyers rely on Callidus today, and ARR is growing >20% MoM, putting us in the top 1% of funded startups at this level. We're ready to scale and are looking to triple the size of our team.
We work hard, ship fast, and win together.
Role Overview
We're searching for a DevOps & Backend engineer who:
Loves building with state‑of‑the‑art tech in a developer‑first company
Can help us create a reliable and scalable environment
Wants to go "all‑in" on a high‑growth startup
Can design and ship great AI backend systems
Will be as obsessed with the success of Callidus as the founders
Tech Stack
Cloud: Azure
Backend: Python (FastAPI), Redis/ARQ, Postgres
Frontend: React/Next.js, Node
AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Meta, Mistral (choosing best‑in‑class per task)
Seniority Level
Senior Engineer to Staff/Principal Engineer considered for this role. Mid-level engineers considered for other roles.
This role will report to the CTO.
Requirements
Responsibilities
We want highly talented engineers that want to be hands-on. You'll be an individual contributor Software Engineer (everyone at Callidus is a doer). Expect to:
Be responsible for our Microsoft Azure infrastructure and deployments.
Ensure high uptime across our platform
Design, build, and maintain complex backend systems
Engineer reliable, scalable Gen‑AI workflows (hybrid RAG, agents, chains of thought, etc.)
Collaborate daily with lawyers and Product to ship measurable user value
Uphold code quality, security, and performance through reviews and automated tests
Help guide the organization to a reliable production environment with proper staging and beta environments. This includes valuable insight into the proper ways to produce a deployment environment without interruption
Enforce a security focused environment with proper key management, SOC2 compliance, and proper log and storage management
Qualifications
Core Requirements
Strong DevOps skills on Azure (or AWS/GCP/VertexAI with quick ramp‑up)
Backend engineering in Python
Database management, architecture, and backend engineering experience
Asynchronous Task Management: Experience with job queue and task orchestration systems such as Celery, Redis Queue (RQ), or similar solutions for managing background processing, scheduled tasks, and distributed workloads in production environments
Ability to commute to SF FiDI office 3 days per week
Soft Skills
Clear, concise communication—low words:insights ratio
Ownership mindset: You do what you say and surface risks early
Ability to work well with ambiguity and low amounts of process
Excellent problem solving capabilities
Passion & Dedication
Genuine excitement for AI and building category‑defining products
Fantastic work ethic & ability to take on a very demanding role (similar culture to xAI, Amazon, Figure, etc.)
Understanding that this will be much more than a 9‑to‑5. The high effort is easy when you love what you do, the company you're building, and the mission you're fulfilling
Nice‑to‑Haves
Proven record of shipping high‑quality products quickly
Experience working with LLM APIs and prompt engineering
Ability to implement sophisticated LLM techniques (hybrid RAG, hallucination guardrails, agentic workflows)
Startup experience
Legal or LegalTech experience
Personal use of AI tooling (Cursor, CoPilot, Midjourney, etc.)
Engineering degree
Interview Process (fast!)
Calibration call with AI Fund sourcing manager
30min chat with Head of Operations
Submission of prior work or deep dive problem solving with a developer
Technical + culture deep‑dive with CTO
Founder session with CEO (problem‑solving + values)
We move very quickly for the right candidate.
Location
U.S. based required
San Francisco, CA
Benefits
Compensation
Base Salary: $140,000 - $200,000
Meaningful equity
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage + Life Insurance
PTO + company holidays
Why Join Us?
Build on the cutting edge of the most transformative tech since . . fire?
Play a critically important role in our success at an engineering-led company
Become one of the first 15 employees at a company poised for explosive growth
Tackle high‑impact, technically hard problems that competitors avoid
Reap outsized rewards in equity and professional growth
Callidus is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
Seniority level Seniority level Not Applicable
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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- Location:
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Salary:
- $200,000 - $250,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT & Technology