# Founding Backend Engineer

[Zipher](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Zipher) · Tel Aviv, Israel · Posted yesterday

[Backend](https://gurify.com/jobs/backend)

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## Job description

Zipher is building the Autonomous Execution Layer for cloud data and AI workloads. Backed by $50M in funding, we dynamically orchestrate clusters, predict bottlenecks, and auto-heal infrastructure in real time – with zero human intervention. Our platform runs in production at global enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 companies, delivering mission-critical resilience and sub-second optimization.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own core components of our autonomous execution engine. You'll design and scale distributed services that make real-time infrastructure decisions across multi-cloud environments.

### Nice to Have

- Experience with large-scale data/compute platforms: Spark, Databricks, Trino, Flink, or Snowflake

- Exposure to MLOps / AIOps infrastructure or serving ML models in production

- Background in cloud cost optimization, FinOps, or workload efficiency at scale

- Prior service as a Software/Backend Engineer in an elite IDF technology unit (8200, Mamram, Ofek, etc.)

### What We Offer

- Top-of-market compensation + significant equity (above market standard)

- Direct ownership over core platform architecture and autonomous infrastructure decisions

- Work with founders, engineering leads, and global enterprise customers on mission-critical systems

- Small, high-impact team that values ownership, speed, and technical depth over process

Ready to build the future of autonomous cloud infrastructure? Hit Apply.

### Requirements

### What You'll Do

- Architect and scale high-throughput, low-latency backend engines that execute real-time autonomous infrastructure decisions

- Design resilient spot-loss mitigation and self-healing systems ensuring zero downtime across enterprise-grade cloud environments

- Expand our ML-driven orchestration core to support complex AI training/inference workloads and distributed data pipelines

- Solve complex distributed state challenges across massive scale, event streams, and real-time telemetry

- Build explainability and telemetry layers that give enterprise engineering leadership full visibility into autonomous platform actions

### What You'll Bring

- 6+ years of backend engineering experience with focus on distributed systems, infrastructure, or core product architecture

- Production mastery of Python or Go as your primary development language

- Deep, hands-on production expertise with AWS at scale (EMR, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, S3, API Gateway)

- Proven background in distributed computing or infrastructure engines (Kubernetes, Spark, high-throughput schedulers, or distributed message brokers)

- Strong production ownership mindset: debugging complex issues, maintaining high availability, and shipping robust system fixes

**Live in Zipher’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role.

We remove it as soon as it disappears at source.

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