Staff Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of large, cross-cutting backend initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.
• Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including modernization of monolithic and legacy backends.
• Define standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.
• Define Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices; guide Rust adoption where appropriate.
• Participate in on-call and incident response, serve as a technical escalation point, and implement improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Shape technical direction across teams and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmaps and investment trade-offs.
• Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers and improve technical capability across the organization.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows, including quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.

Requirements

• Sustained technical leadership across multiple teams or a broad product area.
• Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms.
• Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production.
• Experience with modular architecture, such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries.
• Ability to build alignment through clear written proposals and decision records.
• Strong product judgment balancing customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and platform investment.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and example.
• Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows.

Nice-to-haves

• Go services and APIs at scale.
• Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, including deployment, scaling, observability, rollback, and production readiness.
• Rust adoption or production ownership for systems, security, performance, or platform components.
• Ruby on Rails modularization and large-monolith modernization.
• PostgreSQL scaling, data partitioning, queues, messaging, or distributed systems.
• Security-sensitive product or software supply chain engineering.
• Experience with SaaS, single-tenant, self-managed, or air-gapped deployment constraints.

Compensation and Benefits

• United States base salary: $152,800–$259,200 USD.
• Benefits include flexible paid time off, health and well-being support, equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan, growth and development funding, parental leave, and team member resource groups.