Staff Backend Engineer
Builds and scales backend systems for real-time telemetry data ingestion, storage, and serving at massive scale. Requires 7+ years experience with Go/Rust/Python, distributed systems, SQL, APIs, and Kubernetes.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend systems that process and store large volumes of real-time telemetry data.
- Own features end-to-end, from design to post-launch improvement.
- Collaborate with Frontend, Design, and Data teams to ensure features solve real customer problems.
- Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Contribute to system evolution—migrating services, introducing caches, and improving storage or indexing layers.
- Participate in on-call rotations, debugging live issues, and improving observability.
- Raise the bar through code reviews, shared patterns, and mentorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure roles.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals—state, fault tolerance, recovery.
- Experience with Go, Rust, or Python, and strong Linux/networking fundamentals.
- Deep knowledge of SQL and operational database experience (indexing, migrations, tuning).
- Experience building and scaling APIs (REST, gRPC/Protobuf).
- Strong debugging skills and a production-first mindset.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo CD, and other modern infrastructure tools.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with streaming or time-series data systems (Kafka, Flink, TimescaleDB, etc.).
- Experience with performance tuning and profiling at query or service layers.
- Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana).
- Background in hardware or telemetry-heavy environments.
Compensation
- Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year.
- Plus equity and benefits.
Skills
Go, Rust, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo Cd, gRPC, Protobuf, Rest, Postgres, Kafka, Flink, Timescaledb, Linux
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