Backend Engineer ( India )

About the company

Coram AI is an AI-native physical security platform that centralizes video, access control, visitor management, and emergency workflows to help organizations investigate incidents faster and improve operational visibility.

About this role

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility. You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected. The role: Our platform spans front-end, backend, ML, and real-time edge systems. In this role, you’ll design and maintain core backend services that drive data flows, reliability, and performance across the stack. Responsibilities: - Design and implementation of the APIs, databases and data pipelines - Ensure the system can scale to the growing traffic, have full observability and drive down the cost - Taking end-to-end responsibility over delivery of features, maintaining high SLA and debugging issues - Supporting a broader front-end, edge-computing and ML team Qualifications: - Experience with an emphasis on building systems of reasonable scale - Familiarity with and experience in Go or Python - Experience designing, implementing, debugging, scaling, and optimizing APIs, databases and pipelines as traffic grows to multi-TB scale - Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions (Pulumi, AWS) is a plus - Experience in monitoring (Grafana) is a plus - Experience in authentication (Auth0) is a plus - Experience working with distributed teams across time zones - Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English - Ability to work in an onsite environment What we offer: - Competitive compensation package - 100% Employer paid Medical cover for you and your loved ones. - Paid time off and paid holidays - Equity in a rapidly growing company - Referral bonuses - Regular team socials, dinners, and off-sites - The latest Apple tech and unlimited tools to help you build your best work We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness. Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.