Senior Backend Engineer (Core, Agents, Learn)
ABOUT SANA
Sana is an AI lab building superintelligence for work. We believe organizations can accomplish their missions faster when teams can effortlessly access knowledge, automate repetitive work, and learn anything with the help of agentic AI. As part of Workday, we are committed to building AI that augments people - not replaces them.
We bring this mission to life through two products. Sana Agents provide a seamless way to access all your company’s apps, knowledge, and data, enabling AI agents to do real work so teams can process and act on information at unprecedented scale. Sana Learn is an AI-powered learning hub that combines the simplicity of a modern learning platform with intelligent features like an AI tutor, automated content generation, and interactive apps, making knowledge not just accessible but actionable.
We’re a talent-dense, product-obsessed team of engineers and designers from companies like Google, Spotify, Apple, and Databricks, united by deep technical excellence and rapid iteration. Our tools already help over a million people learn and work better across hundreds of leading enterprises - and we’re just getting started.
ABOUT THE ROLES
You will work on the core backend systems that power Sana’s Learn platform and search infrastructure. You will redesign and scale systems to handle enterprise workloads, remove deep bottlenecks, and evolve our architecture for the era of AI and agents.
We are hiring for two senior roles:
1. Senior Backend Engineer, Learn (Core Systems)
2. Senior Backend Engineer, Search
1. SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER, LEARN (CORE SYSTEMS)
ABOUT THE ROLE
You will focus on making the Learn platform, especially Manage, Insights, and APIs, scalable and maintainable for enterprise use. You will take systems that work at current scale and redesign them to handle much larger volumes of data, users, and entities. The work is primarily architectural and system level, with strong emphasis on Postgres and databas...