About the job
The Role
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at ComfyUI, you will spearhead vital backend projects that empower millions of creatives to harness AI through our platform. Your responsibilities will include developing robust distributed systems, creating data models that accommodate rapid growth, and addressing complex scaling and optimization challenges. You will also contribute code to our open-source initiatives, ComfyUI, and Comfy Cloud. While our backend technology stack includes Python, Go, Kubernetes, and Postgres, we prioritize your adaptability and coding proficiency over specific language familiarity.
Ideal Candidate Profile
You thrive on taking ownership of high-quality feature development.
You are innovative and regularly devise creative solutions to complex problems.
You have a track record of building exceptional products, valuing user experience alongside engineering excellence.
You possess a deep understanding of distributed systems and have experience scaling large systems.
Your Responsibilities
Collaborate with a cross-functional team to rapidly implement features, often transitioning from concept to production in mere days.
Release features that have a direct impact on millions of ComfyUI users.
Help define our technical direction as we scale.
Sample Projects
Deploy diverse custom nodes developed by the open-source community in a secure and sustainable manner.
Develop algorithms for scheduling a diverse range of workflows on GPU nodes, optimizing for latency and throughput.
Create a notification system from the ground up in just one week.
Preferred Qualifications
Willingness to dive deep into infrastructure (Kubernetes/Helm) to achieve objectives.
We value your eagerness to learn and deliver quality code over familiarity with our entire stack. Our approach to problem-solving is about acquiring the knowledge needed to tackle challenges, rather than sticking to what we know.
About ComfyUI
ComfyUI stands as the premier visual AI platform, an open and modular framework enabling anyone to construct, personalize, and automate AI workflows with precision and full control.

