Summary
Join a creative engineering team building next-generation AI technology designed to give people greater control over digital creation. You’ll work across the backend, contributing to application infrastructure, databases, caching, and core services. The role offers broad technical ownership and the opportunity to work alongside a multidisciplinary team of engineers and creative professionals in a fully in-person environment.
Highlights
Work on next-generation AI technology in a highly creative engineering environment, with broad ownership across the backend and opportunities to contribute to innovative tools spanning multiple media formats.
Description
About Krea
At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.
We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it.
We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D.
We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium.
We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2, our first foundational model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control.
We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class Silicon Valley investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract.
We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco.
We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.
What you'll do
You'll work across the whole backend: the SvelteKit app and its Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse data layer, the Python services that run our ML inference, and the Kubernetes clusters that tie it together across multiple cloud and GPU providers.
You'll own these systems end-to-end, from design through to running them in production.
A sample of what we're working on right now:
Durable execution for long-running workflows.
Building the state machines, idempotency, and retry semantics that keep multi-step inference jobs correct when they take minutes to finish and anything can fail mid-flightImproving our public API.
Designing a clean, well-documented API surface with OpenAPI docs auto-generated from our Zod schemasEnterprise product features.
ACLs, audit logs, entitlements, and all the "boring" features that organizations with a thousand users expect
What We're Looking For
We care more about first-principles engineering than which languages or tools you happen to know
You've owned real production systems end-to-end: design, monitoring, metrics, incidents.
Ideally you have 4–8 years of experience, but we care about scope and judgment over the number on your resumeYou're comfortable across the stack and unfazed by unfamiliar code, and you have opinions about how to architect things that scaleYou write and talk clearly, and you're happy working without a lot of PM hand-holding
Bonus if you: have GPU or infra experience, have run Kubernetes in production, or come from a creative background.
A lot of us do, and it helps when you're building tools for creatives (but it's genuinely not a requirement).
Our stack
SvelteKit, TypeScript, Python, Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis, ClickHouse, Docker, Kubernetes, FluxCD.
What we offer
Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative toolingImpact: Significant scope and company-wide impactCompetitive compensation: generous salary & equity packagesHealth & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverageTime off: Flexible PTO policyFinancial planning: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored matchMeals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover itTransit: Ubers covered to & from the officeSponsorship: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
And more!
Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees
