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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

San Francisco, CAOnsite6+ YOE
Summary

Design and build a high-performance, real-time data security platform handling large data volumes. Requires 6+ years building scalable backend systems with strong Golang and systems-level experience.

About the role

What you'll do

  • Design and develop a high performance data platform that can handle large volumes of data in real-time
  • Build new product features from start to finish through to research, implementation, and maintenance
  • Help improve performance and reliability of net new and existing features
  • Lead any initiative you think may have a strong impact on Formal
  • Design scalable services as Formal grows and processes more traffic

What You Need

  • 6+ years of relevant software development experience building data-intensive software platforms
  • You value code simplicity and performance
  • Strong knowledge of Golang and experience with its ecosystem
  • Experience with streaming data processing frameworks such as Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub
  • Experience debugging and optimizing complex production systems
  • Experience working in DBs, OS, networking, or other systems-level environments
  • Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes) and infrastructure as a code technologies (Terraform)
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team
  • You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills

Nice-to-Haves

  • You have worked in a fast, high-growth startup environment before
  • You have experience using tools like Temporal and Render
  • You have extensive knowledge of datastore protocols (Postgres, S3, Kafka)
  • Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, such as Azure or GCP

Compensation

This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant. The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
  • Partially covered for your dependents
  • Flexible PTO
Skills
GolangRustTemporalApache KafkaGoogle Pub/SubPostgreSQLS3MySQLSnowflakeRedshiftSSHAWSDockerKubernetesTerraform