Software Engineer - Backend
Builds and owns distributed backend systems for ingesting, processing, and storing high-frequency telemetry data for hardware platforms. Requires 3+ years in performance-critical systems, expertise in Go/Rust/Java, cloud infra, and storage/streaming tech.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve distributed systems that ingest, process, and persist high-frequency telemetry and sensor data.
- Design storage and indexing strategies for large, time-series, and event-driven datasets with strict performance and correctness requirements.
- Tackle hard problems around scalability, backpressure, fault tolerance, and data consistency in real-time systems.
- Optimize hot paths, reduce tail latency, and improve reliability as the system scales with new customers and use cases.
- Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and customer-facing engineers to solve domain-specific problems for cutting-edge hardware teams.
- Influence backend architecture and technical direction, mentoring teammates, and raising the bar for system design across the org.
Requirements
- 3+ years building distributed systems where performance, reliability, and operational simplicity matter.
- Strong experience in Go, Rust, or Java, with an emphasis on correctness, clarity, and long-lived systems.
- Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and production tooling like Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
- Hands-on experience designing or operating storage systems — time-series databases, columnar formats, or analytics engines (e.g., ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Druid, InfluxDB, Parquet).
- Experience with streaming or data processing technologies such as Kafka, Apache Arrow, Flink, or Spark.
- Comfort reasoning about distributed systems tradeoffs — latency vs throughput, consistency vs availability, abstraction vs control.
- Clear technical communication and a bias toward ownership: you design it, build it, ship it, and operate it.
Compensation
Base pay range: $130,000 – $230,000 per year.
Skills
Go, Rust, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, ClickHouse, Timescaledb, Druid, Influxdb, Parquet, Kafka
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