Staff Backend Software Engineer

As a Staff Backend Engineer at Sense, you’ll use your expertise to expand the capabilities of our cloud platform and enable the next generation of new product features. You will be a key contributor and leader maintaining and scaling a high-quality production service. You should be:

Focused on delivering functionality that benefits the customer and provides real value

Able to partner effectively with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and engineering managers across multiple disciplines.

Ready to work with embedded engineers to develop systems that integrate with various hardware platforms.

Comfortable working closely with partners and customers to ensure success

Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses.

Interested in building high-availability, performant, and scalable systems.

Tenacious when tracking down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to solve problems.

Ready to own team projects from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and bug fixing. Complete day-to-day work autonomously and identify gaps in requirements or processes, proactively suggesting improvements.

Familiar and comfortable with AI coding practices

A strong leader and outspoken advocate for engineering best practices and team collaboration.

This position is ideally a hybrid work model, but fully remote candidates will be considered. Our office is in Cambridge, MA and we have a mix of in-person, hybrid and remote employees.