Staff Backend Engineer
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This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden.Full-TimeStaff
Salary106,000 - 127,000 EUR per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- KafkaKubernetesGoGrafanaPrometheusMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
- Strong systems-design instincts.
- Hands-on cloud and platform experience (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC).
- Reliability and performance ownership (SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning).
- Excellent coding and design skills (Go, Python, C, C++, or Rust).
- Comfort with AI-assisted development tools.
- Experience with messaging and telemetry (Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Influence without authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap.
- Proactively define the architectural vision, prioritize work, and influence engineering decisions.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects.
- Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost for critical systems.
- Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response.
- Improve observability, automation and operational readiness.
- Align stakeholders and remove blockers.
- Mentor and grow engineering talent.
- Represent engineering internally and externally.
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