About Coverstar
Coverstar is building the first safe, creative, AI-native social platform for Gen Alpha. We’re building a world where the next generation can create, connect, and grow with technology that’s fun, expressive, and safe by design. Read more on our Careers Page.
We’re backed by top investors like a16z, moving fast, and hiring a mission-aligned AI Engineer to help us power the next generation of personalized content and community.
What You’ll Do
As a Backend Engineer / SRE, you’ll maintain, optimize, and scale Coverstar’s backend systems to ensure they’re secure, reliable, and high-performing. You’ll lead efforts in infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response while partnering with backend, data, and AI teams. Your work keeps every feature, feed, and livestream running smoothly and safely for our community.
As an Backend Engineer / SRE Lead, you’ll:
AI/ML Infrastructure Support
- Partner with AI/ML engineers to build and scale model training and inference pipelines.
- Design and maintain data pipelines for preprocessing, labeling automation, and semi-manual labeling workflows.
- Optimize compute and storage architecture for efficient training and deployment.
Infrastructure Management and Capacity Planning
- Optimize Postgres and DynamoDB performance through query analysis, indexing, and partitioning strategies.
- Ensure database scalability and availability for high-throughput workloads.
- Drive proactive capacity planning and long-term infrastructure improvements.
Incident Response & Security
- Expand centralized monitoring: build on our Grafana/Prometheus setup by unifying logs, metrics, and system health data.
- Integrate advanced alerting: configure automated threshold- and anomaly-based alerts for rapid incident detection.
- Simulate attacks and conduct penetration testing to uncover and fix vulnerabilities.
- Refine and document incident response plans to ensure readiness and cross-team alignment.
- Support moderators with live moderation stream issues (including weekend coverage).