Overview
Senior Backend Engineer, Shopping Agents Sage AI Labs · Munich · Full-time · [Remote] About us Sage AI Labs is building the infrastructure that lets AI agents transact on the open web. It is one of the few genuinely unsolved problems left in commerce, and whoever solves it sets the defaults everyone else builds on top of. The company was founded by Sebastian Thrun (founder of Google X and Waymo, Udacity) and is backed by leading venture and strategic investors. About the role We build agents that shop for you. They find products across the open web and complete the purchase end to end. Real carts, real payments, and real systems built to stop them. You would own that. Architecture, code, deploys, monitoring, and on-call for systems that transact around the clock, working directly with our CTO. What you'll own Our checkout agents. Frontier-model computer-use agents driving live checkouts at scale, plus the machinery that keeps them standing when the ground moves. Every retailer breaks differently and they change without warning. Your job is to make failure rare and recovery automatic. Ingestion at scale. Take product ingestion from hundreds of sources to thousands. The answer is not more hand-written code. It is infrastructure that generates, validates, and monitors itself. Search and ranking. Embedding-based retrieval, LLM query understanding, reranking, and caching, across a catalog that never stops changing. What we're looking for 5+ years building backend and infrastructure systems, with strong Python You have owned production systems end to end: deploys, databases, observability, and the pager. You have been the person who got paged, and you fixed the class of problem rather than the incident You like adversarial problems. Systems where something on the other side is actively working against you You take correctness seriously because the stakes are real. These systems spend customers' money, so a silent failure is a wrong order, not a red build You can move w
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Senior Backend Engineer, Shopping Agents Sage AI Labs · Munich · Full-time · [Remote] About us Sage AI Labs is building the infrastructure that lets AI agents transact on the open web. It is one of the few genuinely unsolved problems left in commerce, and whoever solves it sets the defaults everyone else builds on top of. The company was founded by Sebastian Thrun (founder of Google X and Waymo, Udacity) and is backed by leading venture and strategic investors. About the role We build agents that shop for you. They find products across the open web and complete the purchase end to end. Real carts, real payments, and real systems built to stop them. You would own that. Architecture, code, deploys, monitoring, and on-call for systems that transact around the clock, working directly with our CTO. What you'll own Our checkout agents. Frontier-model computer-use agents driving live checkouts at scale, plus the machinery that keeps them standing when the ground moves. Every retailer breaks differently and they change without warning. Your job is to make failure rare and recovery automatic. Ingestion at scale. Take product ingestion from hundreds of sources to thousands. The answer is not more hand-written code. It is infrastructure that generates, validates, and monitors itself. Search and ranking. Embedding-based retrieval, LLM query understanding, reranking, and caching, across a catalog that never stops changing. What we're looking for 5+ years building backend and infrastructure systems, with strong Python You have owned production systems end to end: deploys, databases, observability, and the pager. You have been the person who got paged, and you fixed the class of problem rather than the incident You like adversarial problems. Systems where something on the other side is actively working against you You take correctness seriously because the stakes are real. These systems spend customers' money, so a silent failure is a wrong order, not a red build You can move w
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