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Software Engineer

Tavily· Engineering
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IsraelFull timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer to join Tavily’s core engineering team, building infrastructure behind a fast-growing AI API with a distributed microservices architecture on AWS. Focus on high-performance systems, real-time data pipelines, and scalable backend infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-performance distributed systems
  • Design and implement backend infrastructure and API endpoints
  • Build and optimize real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors
  • Improve performance, monitoring, and reliability across the stack
  • Own core systems and contribute to key architectural decisions
  • Help shape a strong engineering culture focused on velocity and quality

Qualifications

  • 5 years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong backend development skills
  • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and cloud-native services, bringing practical knowledge of deploying and managing services in real-world environments
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with lots of ownership
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability over outcomes
  • Curiosity about LLMs, retrieval and the future of AI systems, with a drive to stay at the forefront of new technology
  • Based in Tel-Aviv or open to relocating

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systems design and operationAWS infrastructureAPI designOwnership and accountabilityCuriosity about LLMs / AI systems
Last updated Jun 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The Web Access Layer for AI Agents

Tavily is the real‑time search engine for AI agents and RAG workflows — Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction. Trusted by 600K+ developers.

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