Staff Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems that process and store large volumes of real-time telemetry data.
• Own features end to end from design through post-launch improvement.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Migrate services and improve caching, storage, and indexing layers.
• Participate in on-call rotations, debug live production issues, and improve observability.
• Collaborate with Frontend, Design, and Data teams to solve customer problems.
• Contribute through code reviews, shared patterns, and mentorship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure roles.
• Strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including state, fault tolerance, and recovery.
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python and strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Deep knowledge of SQL and operational database work including indexing, migrations, and tuning.
• Experience building and scaling APIs using REST and gRPC/Protobuf.
• Strong debugging skills and a production-first mindset.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Argo CD.
• Experience with streaming or time-series data systems such as Kafka, Flink, or TimescaleDB is a bonus.
• Experience with performance tuning, profiling, and observability tools such as Datadog and Grafana is a bonus.
• Background in hardware or telemetry-heavy environments is a bonus.

Benefits

• Salary range of $200,000–$260,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.
• In-person collaboration at the Marina Del Rey headquarters twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays.
• A full in-person collaboration week every two months.
• Relocation to Los Angeles is supported, and working from the San Francisco office may be possible for the right candidate.