Software Engineer II, Backend (Reliability Platform)
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Remote USFull-TimeMiddle
SalaryUSA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $165000 - $225000; USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $146000 - $206000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 1.5+ years of experience
- Required Skills
- PythonDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Experience architecting data-intensive applications and robust APIs.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or Claude.
- Practical use of LLMs or AI frameworks to enhance automation and guidance with guardrails and citations.
- Ability to take ambiguous requirements and rapidly iterate towards a working solution.
- Strong problem-solving and product sense.
Responsibilities
- Build a centralized reliability command center that gives teams a unified view of system health, risk, and reliability across services and environments.
- Create AI agents that can assist with incident triage, root-cause exploration, log/trace summarization, and recommended next actions.
- Create delightful developer-facing features and APIs that help engineers explore data, debug issues, and make better decisions.
- Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, Copilot-like tools) as leverage to prototype, refactor, and ship high-quality code quickly.
- Own projects end-to-end: requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration based on feedback.
- Collaborate closely with partner teams (product, infra, data, SRE) to understand pain points and translate them into simple, powerful solutions.
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