Full-Time
Senior Backend Engineer
LlamaIndex
51-200 employees
Connects data to large language models
Compensation Overview
$180k - $250k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Experience with shipping completely new product features from scratch. Have gone from prototype to production serving end users in a short amount of time.
- Shipped or otherwise interested in AI/LLM-native applications.
- Iterated rapidly with customers or other engineers - translate user feedback into features back to proactive user discovery. Help jointly develop and iterate on product roadmap for core features.
- Shipped applications at scale.
- 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Proficiency with Python and Node.js and familiarity with Kubernetes (Kubernetes), Terraform, Postgres, and Temporal.
- Build out new features and scale our backend capabilities focused on scaling out our core APIs.
- Work closely with prospects and customers to build production solutions.
- None
LlamaIndex.ai builds a data framework that helps businesses connect their own data sources to large language models (LLMs). It supports integrating structured data (like Excel and SQL), semi-structured data from APIs (such as Slack, Salesforce, and Notion), and unstructured data (web pages and images) so LLMs can understand and draw insights from a company’s data. The product works by linking diverse data sources to LLMs, enabling queries and data-driven answers across a company’s systems. Compared with competitors, LlamaIndex.ai emphasizes flexible connectors and a unified framework to access multiple data types through LLMs, making it easier for businesses to leverage AI on their existing data without heavy custom engineering. The company’s goal is to help organizations make data-driven decisions by simplifying access to their data through AI-powered language models, typically via a subscription-based B2B model.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$27.5M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2023
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $19M Series A from Norwest and Greylock expands 20-member team in March 2025.
- Databricks integrates LlamaIndex with MLFlow for production knowledge agents.
- KPMG investment boosts LlamaCloud adoption among 90 Fortune 500 waitlisters.
What critics are saying
- LangChain v0.3 erodes market share in 6-12 months via broader integrations.
- Databricks Mosaic AI locks customers into competing RAG workflows in 3-6 months.
- Meta Llama 4 obsoletes connectors with native RAG in Q1 2026.
What makes LlamaIndex unique
- LlamaParse delivers agentic OCR for complex documents with human-level accuracy.
- LlamaCloud processes 300+ unstructured formats into RAG-ready data at enterprise scale.
- Agent framework orchestrates multi-agent AI systems over proprietary enterprise data.
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↑ 1%Elastic adds workflow automation for AI agents. Elastic is targeting organisations seeking to automate complex workflows using AI agents that can access and analyse enterprise data with its new Agent Builder. The platform addresses the challenge of deploying AI systems that can reliably interact with internal documents, databases and systems while maintaining governance and security controls. Agent Builder connects to Elasticsearch to retrieve enterprise data and execute automated tasks. The company claims the system "dramatically simplifies" agent development through integrated data ingestion, retrieval capabilities and built-in tools. Developers can deploy agents using multiple AI models through cloud providers. Elastic simultaneously introduced Workflows, currently in technical preview, which adds rule-based automation to supplement AI-driven decision-making. This dual approach responds to enterprise requirements for both intelligent reasoning and predictable, compliant automation - a critical consideration for organisations managing regulated data. "Agent Builder has native MCP and A2A protocol support, enabling seamless deployments within Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework," said Amanda Silver, corporate vice president at Microsoft CoreAI. "This gives our users a way to build context-rich, agentic AI leveraging Elasticsearch as a Knowledge Source." Elastic has partnered with Arcade.dev for agent tool integration and LlamaIndex for document processing. "Unlocking enterprise context from unstructured data sources is key to building effective agents," said Jerry Liu, CEO at LlamaIndex. The company claims its document processing capabilities will help agents "retrieve, process, and prepare data so agents can reason more accurately." Agent Builder is available in Elastic Cloud Serverless and included with the Enterprise Tier for existing customers using Elastic Cloud Hosted or self-managed deployments. Ken Exner, chief product officer at Elastic, positioned the release as addressing a gap between AI experimentation and production deployment: "By enhancing Agent Builder with Workflows, teams get a single system that delivers both intelligent reasoning and dependable automation, which is exactly what enterprises need to move from pilots to real-world impact."
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LlamaIndex announced minority equity investments from Databricks and KPMG LLP to boost development and adoption of its LlamaCloud and LlamaParse platforms. These tools aid enterprises in building AI systems using unstructured data. Databricks and KPMG aim to enhance AI accessibility and innovation. Financial terms were not disclosed.
LlamaIndex has announced minority equity investments from Databricks and KPMG LLP, marking a key milestone in its mission to streamline the development of agentic AI solutions built on enterprise data.