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Senior Software Engineer, Platform

160k – 180kSan Mateo, CABackend EngineeringHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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
Skills
JavaPythonMongoDBAWSDistributed SystemsCI/CDObservabilityContainersQuery OptimizationIndexing
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