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$144K–$232K
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Vizcom is building the future of industrial design.
Our mission is to reshape the design process by streamlining the path from concept to creation, helping designers bring more impactful ideas into the physical world.
Design teams at companies like Nike, GM, New Balance, and Hasbro use Vizcom to move from early concepts and sketches through rendering, visualization, and 3D exploration.
We're a Series B company with more than $51M raised and are continuing to expand our engineering team in San Francisco.
The technical surface area is broad: real-time collaboration, GPU inference at scale, distributed systems, enterprise infrastructure, and a modern TypeScript stack supporting professional design teams every day.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend — Systems & Infrastructure, you'll architect and build the backend systems that keep Vizcom fast, reliable, and scalable as our product and customer base grow.
You'll work across systems including GPU workload orchestration, GraphQL performance, real-time event infrastructure, caching, data integrity, and observability.
This is a high-ownership engineering role. You'll be responsible not only for building systems, but also for understanding how they behave in production, identifying bottlenecks, improving reliability, and helping shape the technical decisions that allow Vizcom to scale.
You'll collaborate closely with frontend, infrastructure, and AI engineers to turn complex technical systems into fast, seamless experiences for designers.
Mentor teammates on backend architecture, testing, reliability, and performance.
You'll work on problems such as:
Observability: Making it easier to understand system behavior, identify failures, and resolve production issues quickly.
Learn the architecture, production environment, critical backend systems, performance characteristics, and how our engineering team builds and operates software.
Take ownership of and ship a meaningful backend or infrastructure improvement, such as a model queue, caching layer, real-time service, or performance optimization.
Identify a meaningful architectural, performance, or reliability opportunity and drive it forward. This could include reducing latency on a critical API path, improving observability, or authoring an RFC that shapes how a core system evolves.
The specific problems may change as the product and infrastructure evolve. What matters is that you're able to identify high-leverage opportunities and own them through production.
Experience with every technology in our stack isn't required. We're more interested in strong engineering fundamentals and your ability to understand, improve, and help shape complex systems.
Comfort taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems from design through production.
Experience working in a high-growth startup environment.
Learn from incidents: Production issues are opportunities to improve our systems and processes, not assign blame.
Monthly gym membership stipend
We regularly benchmark compensation against relevant peer companies using current market data from industry-standard sources, including Carta and Pave. This range reflects our Tier 1 compensation market, which includes San Francisco.
The actual offer and overall compensation package will be determined based on multiple factors, including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and business considerations. The compensation and benefits described in this posting apply to U.S.-based W-2 employees and may vary based on applicable employment laws and requirements.
Our interview process is designed to give both you and Vizcom an opportunity to understand the fit, the work, and how we would collaborate.
This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA. 3 days/week
If you're excited by complex systems, high ownership, and building technology used every day by professional designers, we'd love to see your application.
At Vizcom, you'll have the opportunity to own meaningful problems end to end while helping build the infrastructure behind the next generation of design tools.
Please apply directly through this job posting. To help us keep our hiring process fair and organized, we ask candidates not to contact Vizcom employees directly regarding their application or candidacy.
Vizcom is not seeking assistance from external recruiting agencies or search firms for this role. Please do not contact or solicit Vizcom employees regarding recruiting services, candidate submissions, or agency partnerships. Unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted by agencies will not create a fee obligation on behalf of Vizcom.
As part of Vizcom's SOC 2 Type II compliance program, employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check, as permitted by applicable law.
