Staff Back-end Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and microservices in production.
• Own new features that improve platform scalability, reliability, availability, extensibility, and performance.
• Establish architecture paradigms, API standards, and technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Lead technical turnarounds including zero-downtime database migrations, legacy modernization, and infrastructure cost optimization.
• Drive observability and reliability engineering practices, including distributed tracing, chaos engineering, and incident management leadership.
• Provide technical mentorship and help develop Senior engineers into Lead and Staff roles.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience focused on large-scale back-end systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems with strict availability and durability SLAs/SLOs.
• Deep mastery of at least one modern back-end language such as Go, Java, Python, C++, or Rust.
• Strong proficiency with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, and DynamoDB.
• Experience establishing architecture paradigms, API standards including REST, gRPC, and GraphQL, and technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Kubernetes; and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Preferred experience with event-driven architectures, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pulsar.
• Preferred background in observability, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, chaos engineering, incident management leadership, and technical mentorship.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, FSA, HSA, EAP, and 401(k) benefits with company match.
• 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure, 12 public holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits and free electric car charging station access.
• Base pay ranges from $152,000 to $261,000 per year depending on geographic market, knowledge, skills, and experience.