- This role is for a highly experienced Back-End Software Engineer who wants to work on core systems that shape how the platform (Model Vault) operates
- You will help define the architecture of the platform where reliability, security, performance, and simplicity all matter, and where many of the problems do not have off-the-shelf solutions
- Model Vault is Cohere’s inference platform for deploying and operating models securely at enterprise scale. The team owns the systems between a customer and the underlying AI infrastructure, including identity, deployments, metering, billing, security, privacy, and confidential computing
- We are strengthening these systems as Model Vault grows, with the goal of scaling to millions of users and supporting some of the world’s most demanding enterprise workloads
- Evolve and scale the backend systems that power Model Vault, including authentication and authorization, deployment management, billing, metering, and customer lifecycle
- Lead major architectural initiatives across identity, payments, usage systems, platform scalability, and other core product foundations
- Build highly reliable control-plane services for provisioning, configuring, scaling, and operating model deployments across clouds and hardware platforms
- Design APIs and distributed systems with solid guarantees around correctness, consistency, isolation, failure recovery, idempotency, and observability
- Build security and privacy into the platform architecture, including tenant isolation, least-privilege access, auditability, secrets management, encryption, and confidential computing boundaries
- Solve complex problems that span backend systems, cloud infrastructure, security,



and AI inference, where conventional SaaS patterns are often not enough
- Drive projects end-to-end, from architecture and threat modeling through implementation, rollout, production operations, and iteration based on real customer workloads

Benefits

- Six weeks’ paid vacation
- Equity / stock options
- RRSP, 401(k), and Pension Scheme contributions
- Coverage for 100% of your insurance premiums across health, dental, vision, and travel
- Additional coverage for accessing mental health providers/services
- Six months of fully paid parental leave, including adoption and surrogacy
- Financial support for egg freezing and IVF in Canada and the UK
- A monthly fitness and wellness allowance
- Globally dispersed company that supports a remote work culture
- A $2,000 annual education benefit for professional development
- A weekly stipend for meals when working remotely and catered lunch when working from one of our global offices
- A monthly arts and culture allowance
- A monthly quality time allowance

You think deeply about security boundaries and understand authentication, authorization, identity, cryptography, secrets, tenant isolation, and how small implementation choices can create significant security risksYou are a strong backend engineer with excellent fundamentals in distributed systems, databases,



networking, operating systems, and securityYou have a track record of taking technically difficult projects from an unclear starting point to systems that other engineers and customers depend onYou have strong systems-design instincts and understand concepts such as concurrency, consistency, caching, queues, rate limiting, backpressure, failure domains, idempotency, and graceful degradationYou have strong programming fundamentals and experience building production systems in languages such as Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar. You write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and make thoughtful tradeoffs between simplicity, performance, and correctnessYou can take ambiguous, high-impact technical problems, define the right architecture, and drive them through to reliable production systemsYou have designed and operated production systems where correctness, availability, security, and performance mattered at significant scaleYou are comfortable reasoning across backend services, APIs, databases, distributed systems, and the cloud infrastructure they run onYou are comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases and debugging complex problems that cross service or system boundariesYou are comfortable challenging existing architecture and evolving foundational components when the system’s needs changeYou care about the details of production engineering, including instrumentation, capacity planning, migrations, backwards compatibility, incident response, and safe rolloutsIf any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply

📌 Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Cohere
📍 Canada