We Love AI JobsSoftware Engineer | Remote
Crossing HurdlesJoin a dynamic remote team at Crossing Hurdles as a Software Engineer, where you'll work full-time on cutting-edge AI technologies. You'll have the opportunity to design and optimize distributed systems that impact the scalability and deployment of AI agents, all while collaborating with talented professionals in an engaging remote culture.
Skills & Expertise
Key Responsibilities
Design and optimize distributed infrastructure for AI agent systems.
Develop backend services and APIs supporting agent lifecycles.
Implement monitoring and fault-tolerance for distributed workflows.
Full Description
Position: Software Engineer
Type: Hourly contract
Compensation: $100–$160 per hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: Full-time, approximately 30–40 hours per week
Role Responsibilities
* Design, build, and optimize distributed infrastructure for training, deploying, and scaling AI agents
* Develop backend systems including services, APIs, and orchestration layers supporting agent lifecycles
* Integrate model-serving pipelines, agent reasoning loops, memory stores, and planning components into production systems
* Build and maintain agent runtime infrastructure including scheduling, state management, and inter-agent communication
* Implement monitoring, observability, and fault-tolerance for long-running distributed workflows
* Evaluate and improve system performance across compute, networking, storage, and inference layers
* Participate in regular synchronous collaboration sessions to review architecture and troubleshoot systems
Requirements
* Strong experience building large-scale distributed systems
* Strong experience designing production-grade backend services and APIs
* Proficiency in one or more systems or backend programming languages
* Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization/orchestration tools
* Familiarity with agent frameworks, multi-agent architectures, or LLM inference pipelines
* Strong understanding of networking, data streaming, caching, and performance optimization
* Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Application Process (Takes 20 Mins)
* Upload your resume.
* Complete an interview.
* Submit a short form.