Software Engineer - Backend (Product)
Design and build backend APIs and services powering enterprise security monitoring, owning product areas end-to-end with Python, data modeling, and cloud infrastructure.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and ship backend APIs and services, from 0-to-1 prototypes through enterprise rollout.
- Own a product area end to end: data modeling, API design, performance, reliability, and operational health.
- Partner with product, design, and frontend to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical plans.
- Tune performance and reliability under real production load, including peaks from real-time alert pipelines.
- Build the monitoring, logging, and alerting needed to catch issues before customers do.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, code reviews, and team standards.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with meaningful time on user-facing web or mobile products.
- Strong Python skills and production experience with Flask, Django, or FastAPI.
- Solid API design instincts across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC.
- Comfort modeling data across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and vector stores.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- A track record of debugging hard production issues and shipping the fix.
Nice to Have
- Real-time systems experience: WebSockets, server-sent events, pub/sub, or streaming pipelines.
- Working knowledge of TypeScript and a modern frontend framework like React or Vue.
- Background in video infrastructure, computer vision applications, notification and alert routing, or LLM and agentic applications.
- Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS into large enterprise deployments.
Skills
Python, Flask, Django, FastAPI, Rest, GraphQL, gRPC, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, WebSockets, TypeScript, React
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