Sandpiper Productions
Social Automation Platform Engineer (Full-Stack, AI/LLM)
About the role Own the platform that turns our asset database into AI-generated, approval-gated, and auto-scheduled social campaigns across Meta and other channels. Youâll build the backend services, the UI module for composing/approving/scheduling, and the reporting pipesâso campaigns publish reliably with guardrails, observability, and traceability. What youâll do ⢠Compose â Approve â Schedule â Publish: Ship a UI module where teammates select assets from our DB, generate LLM variants, preview per platform, route for approval, and schedule posts. ⢠Integrations: Implement and maintain Meta Graph API (and peers) for OAuth, publishing, webhooks, pagination, rate-limit handling, retries, and error classification. ⢠Guardrails: Enforce brand/policy checks, blocked terms, size/format limits, and approval gates; log every action (create/edit/approve/publish) with auditability. ⢠Schedulers & workers: Build timezone-aware schedulers, queues, and backoff/retry strategies; surface live status via webhooks and alerts. ⢠Reporting & data: Attach campaign/UTM metadata automatically; ingest Insights/Analytics into the warehouse and power dashboards for performance and SLA monitoring. ⢠Reliability & security: Instrument traces/metrics/logs, set SLOs, create runbooks; implement RBAC, secrets management, and least-privilege access to the asset DB. ⢠Collaboration: Partner with Marketing/Brand to translate briefs into prompt templates and experiment plans; with Data to define schemas; with Legal on policy checks. Outcomes youâll own (KPIs) ⢠Automation rate: % of posts fully automated (target increases quarter over quarter). ⢠Reliability: Publish success rate, time-to-recover, and max retry thresholds within SLO. ⢠Throughput: Time from draft to scheduled publish; batched publishing without platform violations. ⢠Quality & lift: Engagement/CTR improvement of AI variants vs. human baseline (A/B). ⢠Data freshness: Insights ingestion latency SLA (e.g., ⤠X hours end-of-day). ⢠Compliance: Zero unauthorized publishes; 100% actions audit-logged. Requirements Minimum qualifications ⢠4+ years building production web apps/services (Python or Node preferred), with queues/workers (e.g., Celery/RQ/SQS) and job schedulers. ⢠Hands-on with OAuth2 and Meta social platform API : publishing, webhooks, pagination, rate limits, error handling. ⢠LLM orchestration experience: prompt templates, content validation/moderation, safe outputs. ⢠Strong SQL; shipped ETL connectors; familiarity with a modern warehouse + BI (e.g., BigQuery/Redshift/Snowflake + Looker/Metabase). ⢠Front-end proficiency (React/TypeScript) to build a clean, role-aware workflow UI. ⢠Track record of shipping observability (metrics/logging/tracing) and writing runbooks/tests. Nice to have (not required) ⢠TikTok/YouTube/X APIs; batch publishing at scale; media processing pipelines. ⢠Evals for generative content; brand safety/classifier experience. ⢠CI/CD, containers, IaC; SOC2-friendly audit logging. ⢠AB testing frameworks; feature flags; config/versioned prompts. Benefits Flexibility and competitive pay. Originally posted on Himalayas
