Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Shape the technical direction of our distributed messaging systems in Go
• - Take on ambiguous, high-stakes problems that cross squad and function boundaries
• - Build consensus on contested technical questions across teams
• - Raise the department's bar — set quality and design standards
• - Drive engineering process and tooling improvements that span multiple squads
• - Participate in an on-call rotation as required
• - Interview and calibrate against our career ladder
• - Use AI agents to make multi-file changes

Required Skills

• - 10+ years building scalable, distributed systems in Go (or similar statically typed languages)
• - Depth across multiple systems or domains
• - A track record of designing for production reality
• - Experience designing observability and recovery as first-class concerns
• - Comfort working in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP)
• - Evidence of making other engineers better
• - A bias for action over perfection

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