Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Build scalable, highly available backend services and APIs for a physical security platform, including video-streaming infrastructure and distributed microservices. The role requires 7+ years of web-services experience, strong object-oriented programming skills, and expertise in databases, streaming, cloud operations, and service reliability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints.
- Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive, fault-tolerant microservices.
- Build core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of backend services.
- Develop large-scale platform solutions and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end.
- Own one or more services or product features as part of the platform team.
- Manage service reliability, including cloud operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field, with a programming background.
- At least 7 years of experience building scalable and highly available web services.
- Strong experience with at least one object-oriented programming language, such as Python, C++, or Golang.
- Expertise in REST and GraphQL APIs, web backend design principles, relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, streaming pipelines, publish-subscribe systems, and indexing systems.
- Ability to write clean and maintainable code.
- Experience designing and implementing complex systems involving multiple services, publish-subscribe paradigms, and microservices architectures.
- Experience managing service reliability and cloud operations, including AWS or Google Cloud.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar technologies.
- Experience building SaaS products.
Compensation and Benefits
- Regular full-time employees receive stock options.
- Comprehensive health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, employee assistance, legal services, and a 401(k) plan.
- Flexible time off, including a winter break for most roles.
- Company-provided equipment and branded gear.
Skills
Python, C++, Go, REST APIs, GraphQL, MySQL, Postgres, Streaming Pipelines, Pub-Sub Systems, Microservices, AWS, GCP, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ
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