Senior Backend Engineer - AI Infrastructure (Shopee Tech Services)
Summary
Builds high-performance gateway services and foundational AI-agent infrastructure (execution environments, tool, memory and context services) for Shopee's engineering teams, plus shared data layers, frameworks and SDKs to drive a unified backend architecture. Core focus: backend reliability, agent execution efficiency, and cost/latency optimization.
Design and build Gateway Services with high performance and reliability
Build foundational capabilities for AI agents — execution environments, tool infrastructure, memory and context services — for engineering teams to build their agents on
Build technical products including unified data access layer, service frameworks, common libraries and practices for backend teams to accelerate the tech stack evolution towards a unified backend architecture
Improve the efficiency, safety and reliability of agent execution: drive down token cost and latency, ensure isolation and controlled access to internal resources
Create high-quality software development kits, explore innovative technologies and practices to improve engineering efficiency and development experience
Collaborate with other Tech Teams to implement company-level solutions for analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources and managing services sustainably
