# Senior Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [SnapLogic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snaplogic)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Python, MongoDB, AWS, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, Observability, Containers, Query Optimization, Indexing
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Senior backend engineer building and operating SnapLogic's control plane services, data layer, and infrastructure. Requires 5+ years experience with distributed systems, databases, and production ownership.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Design, build, and operate services and infrastructure that make up SnapLogic's control plane
- Take end-to-end ownership: from design through production rollout and monitoring
- Improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability — across services, data layer, and dependencies
- Investigate and resolve production issues, then turn the fix into a durable improvement (better tests, observability, automation, or design changes)
- Contribute to our data-layer work as needed: query and index tuning, schema/access pattern reviews, shard and cluster operations, capacity planning
- Partner with other Platform engineers, SRE, and application teams to keep us on our zero-downtime SLA
- Raise the bar on engineering quality — code review, design review, mentoring peers

## What We're Looking For

- 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
- Strong programming fundamentals, ideally in Java or Python; comfort picking up new languages and stacks
- Experience operating distributed systems in production — debugging, profiling, capacity planning, incident response
- Track record of taking features from design to production and owning them after launch
- Solid grasp of databases (relational or NoSQL): query performance, indexing, schema design trade-offs
- Excellent design, code, and written communication skills
- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

## Preferred Experience

- Hands-on experience operating MongoDB (or another NoSQL database) at scale — sharding, replica sets, query profiling, index tuning
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers, and CI/CD
- Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, tracing, structured logs) and SRE practices

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