Role Overview
Cliply is building a high-throughput, multimodal AI platform that processeslong-form video, audio, and text to generate structured narrative intelligencefor broadcasters and media companies. As a Backend / Platform Engineer, youwill design and operate the distributed systems, media pipelines and model‑servinginfrastructure that power Cliply’s core engine.
You will work closely with AI/MLengineers to integrate perception models, multimodal alignment models andLLM/VLM inference services into a scalable production environment. This role iscritical to transforming our AI engine into a reliable, production‑readyplatform.
Key Responsibilities
Media & AI PipelineEngineering
- Build ingestion pipelines for long‑form video, audio and transcripts (multi‑hour content).
- Design distributed processing workflows for frame extraction, audio segmentation and metadata generation.
- Implement asynchronous job orchestration for long‑running tasks (video processing, multimodal alignment, inference batching).
- Integrate GPU‑backed model‑serving endpoints (LLMs, VLMs, perception models) via REST/gRPC.
- Build caching, batching and scheduling layers for high‑volume inference workloads.
Backend Architecture &Microservices
- Design and implement REST/gRPC APIs for content ingestion, retrieval, metadata access and response‑tree execution.
- Build microservices that orchestrate multimodal pipelines, queues and background workers.
- Implement robust retry logic, backpressure handling and distributed task management.
- Develop scalable storage layers for embeddings, metadata graphs, timelines and multimodal outputs.
Cloud Infrastructure &Deployment
- Architect and operate cloud environments (AWS/GCP) for development, staging and production.
- Deploy containerised services using Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) for microservices and model serving.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for backend and ML components, including automated tests and blue‑green deployments.
- Manage object storage (S3/GCS) for large media assets and multimodal datasets.
Observability, Reliability& Security
- Implement monitoring, logging and tracing for long‑running pipelines and inference services.
- Build dashboards for pipeline health, throughput, latency and failure analysis.
- Ensure security best practices across authentication, authorisation, rate limiting and usage tracking.
- Conduct performance tuning for high‑throughput, low‑latency workloads.
Collaboration & SystemDesign
- Work closely with AI/ML engineers to integrate perception and multimodal models into backend workflows.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers to expose APIs and support creative‑workflow features.
- Participate in architecture reviews, design discussions and technical roadmap planning.
Requirements
Must‑Have
- 4–7+ years of experience in backend, platform or distributed systems engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Java or Node.js/TypeScript.
- Experience with microservices, REST/gRPC APIs and asynchronous processing.
- Hands‑on experience with distributed queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub).
- Experience deploying services on AWS or GCP (EKS/GKE, EC2/Compute Engine, S3/GCS).
- Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, concurrency and fault‑tolerance.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with large object storage and high‑volume data pipelines.
Nice‑to‑Have
- Experience integrating ML model‑serving frameworks (Triton, TorchServe, custom gRPC).
- Experience with GPU scheduling, inference batching or multimodal pipelines.
- Experience with media processing (FFmpeg, video/audio extraction, streaming APIs).
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Cloud certifications (AWS/GCP) or prior experience with high‑throughput systems.
Why Cliply
- Build the core engine of a next‑generation multimodal AI platform for the media industry.
- Work directly with senior AI engineers on perception, multimodal alignment and long‑form reasoning.
- Solve complex distributed‑systems challenges at the intersection of media, AI and cloud infrastructure.
- Join a pre‑seed team where your work directly shapes the product, architecture and future of the company.