Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus)

5+ years of experience in backend development, including meaningful time operating what you built in production.

Formal SRE practice experience — error budget policies, capacity models, production readiness reviews, chaos or fault-injection testing.

Strong, demonstrated experience in GoLang and/or Node.js with a willingness to learn.

Strong experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems.

Experience with building and optimizing APIs, real-time data processing systems, and microservices architectures.

Hands-on experience running production services on containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

Working fluency with observability tooling such as Datadog or comparable monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms — including instrumenting services and building useful dashboards and alerts.

Experience participating in an on-call rotation: triaging live incidents, mitigating impact, and writing up what happened afterward.

Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with databases like DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch.

Proficiency with general software engineering tools: Git, IDEs, shell scripting, CI/CD.

Proficient in English for clear communication in a global, remote team.

Ability to work independently on tasks while effectively collaborating as a team member.

A strong desire to mentor and grow junior team members.

BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Practical experience with analytical storage systems like ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks.

Experience with performance profiling and cost optimization of high-throughput cloud workloads.

Experience working with large open-source projects to address the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders, and demonstrated ability to work and communicate asynchronously across a world-wide team.

Demonstrated experience with both Node.js and Go in a backend context.

Excellent understanding of Internet security & privacy mechanisms.

Backend development: Golang and NodeJS (Preferred), TypeScript, Express or equivalent.

Infrastructure and delivery: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.

Observability: Datadog, metrics/logging/tracing.

Data analytics/processing: ClickHouse, dbt.