About Brandlight

Brandlight is the leading enterprise AI visibility platform, built to help the world’s leading brands understand, manage, and optimize how they appear across AI-driven search, commerce, and advertising.

As AI rapidly becomes a trillion-dollar marketing and distribution channel, Brandlight is defining the systems that decide how brands are surfaced, trusted, and chosen.

Join our team and help build the next generation of tools shaping the future of brand management in an AI-first world.

About The Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Brandlight, you’ll be a core builder with a strong infrastructure mindset, responsible for designing and delivering backend systems that can support several billion data points collected daily, with high reliability and real-time visibility. This role is for someone who can own complex systems end-to-end, move fast, build from scratch, automate everything possible, and create production-grade infrastructure that scales.

Responsibilities

• Build and own backend infrastructure handling billions of data points daily.
• Design scalable services with reliability, automation, and observability.
• Enable daily monitoring at scale with strong SLAs.
• Build parallel execution systems to cut processing and report times.
• Deliver real-time monitoring and alerting for system and data health.
• Reduce manual work through automation, tooling, and processes.
• Own delivery end-to-end: architecture → production → performance.
  
  

Requirements

• 7+ years building production systems at scale.
• 7+ years Python, writing clean, maintainable backend code.
• Built infrastructure from scratch, owning it end-to-end.
• Shipped backend products independently (design → production).
• Experience with high-throughput data collection + monitoring systems.
• Automation-first mindset: reduces manual work with tools + processes.Strong
• communicator and execution driver across teams.
• Curious, low-ego, self-taught, with proven leadership.
  
  

Why Join Us?

At Brandlight, you’ll build and shape a new category at the intersection of AI, marketing, and commerce.

We’re a fast-growing startup led by repeat entrepreneurs, world-class engineers, and marketing leaders, all driven to reinvent how brands are built, discovered, and chosen in the age of AI.