Staff Software Engineer
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Ground News News Tech
Remote - CanadaFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsPostgreSQLGCPKubernetesTypeScriptRESTful APIsTerraformDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience maintaining and operating high-performing, production backend systems.
- Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Strong experience designing, building, and integrating RESTful APIs.
- Solid knowledge of distributed systems design and architecture patterns.
- Hands-on experience operating services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Proficiency with containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform/OpenTofu.
- SRE-oriented expertise in monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance optimization.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and message queues (Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub).
- Proven track record of shipping and scaling reliable services for consumer products.
Responsibilities
- Manage monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning for production services.
- Maintain infrastructure as code and deployment workflows using Kubernetes and OpenTofu/Terraform on AWS and GCP.
- Provide senior-level code reviews for backend and infrastructure teams while supporting frontend initiatives.
- Collaborate with Customer Success to triage and resolve user-impacting technical issues.
- Contribute to high-level architecture and systems design discussions.
- Champion engineering quality through testing, observability, and operational standards.
- Own service lifecycle management, from development through production monitoring and incident response.
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