Senior Platform Engineer
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RallyUser Research CRM
Remote-first within the United States, Core collaboration hours that overlap across US time zonesFull-TimeSenior
Salary185,000 - 210,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsKafkaTypeScript
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and operating complex backend systems in production.
- Strong TypeScript/Node.js fundamentals with hands-on experience in a fully TypeScript codebase.
- Deep experience with AWS managed services (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, MSK).
- Experience with modern cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Experience with event-driven systems and streaming infrastructure (Kafka or equivalent).
- Proven track record of owning significant technical areas end-to-end.
- Strong understanding of observability (metrics, logs, traces).
- Comfort with on-call responsibilities and production incident response.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale critical backend systems including data sync pipelines, search APIs, email/SMS delivery, and workflow automation.
- Drive platform-level projects that unlock new product capabilities such as activity feeds, custom objects, rate limiting, tenant isolation, and data enrichment.
- Collaborate with product engineers to eliminate platform bottlenecks and improve feature development velocity.
- Participate in shared on-call rotation and lead post-incident reviews.
- Shape the backend foundation for AI-native platform research workflows.
- Influence architectural decisions and establish engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and pairing.
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