Senior Software Engineer - Backend Platform

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design and evolve distributed systems in Go to handle billions of daily events and messages and store and index petabytes of data
• - Lead architectural decisions around performance, reliability, and real-time event processing
• - Improve service-to-service communication through better APIs, messaging systems, and event-driven patterns
• - Work across teams to uncover bottlenecks and system issues, and lead initiatives to resolve them for a smoother customer experience
• - Tackle high-throughput challenges across data pipelines, queues, and scheduling infrastructure
• - Able to debug production systems at scale using effective instrumentation, and resolve issues quickly and confidently
• - Share knowledge and raise the bar through sharing your progress publicly with short videos, thoughtful writing, and mentorship
• - Leverage AI tools to prototype, move faster, and make better decisions

Required Skills

• - Deep experience with distributed systems and large-scale backend architecture
• - Strong instincts around reliability, observability, and fault tolerance
• - Comfort reasoning about performance, capacity, and trade-offs at scale
• - Experience with event-driven systems, message queues, or data pipelines is a plus
• - A collaborative mindset — you raise the team around you
• - Significant experience (typically 10+ years) building scalable, distributed systems in Go (or similar statically typed languages)
• - Deep experience with databases - relational (MySQL, Postgres) and non-relational (DynamoDB, BigTable) - and how to make them fast
• - Comfort working in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP)
• - Familiarity with APIs, observability, and operating production systems
• - A bias for action over perfection, and pride in owning technical decisions

Benefits

• - 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and supplemental insurance premiums for you and your family
• - 16 weeks paid parental leave
• - Unlimited PTO
• - Stipends for remote work and wellness
• - A professional development budget
• - More