Backend Engineer

Contribute to our collection of highly-scalable services (some stateless, some stateful). Our services run in multiple regions, are engineered to support spiky but predictable workloads, and are deployed via multi-stage rollouts to build confidence in the correctness and efficiency of changes.

By 30 Days Use your background to understand and improve existing services under the supervision of existing team members Analyze the cost models of our services and suggest areas of and strategies for new operational efficiencies

Use your background to understand and improve existing services under the supervision of existing team members

Analyze the cost models of our services and suggest areas of and strategies for new operational efficiencies

By 90 Days Lead the development of new services such as (1) a k8s operator to control a service’s lifecycle or (2) a cloud storage caching layer Play a key role in technology evaluations and architecture evolution discussions Harden and productize internally or externally developed libraries and services.

Lead the development of new services such as (1) a k8s operator to control a service’s lifecycle or (2) a cloud storage caching layer

Play a key role in technology evaluations and architecture evolution discussions

Harden and productize internally or externally developed libraries and services.

By 1 Year Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our user-facing application, and drive improvements of scalability without introducing unnecessary friction

Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our user-facing application, and drive improvements of scalability without introducing unnecessary friction