Staff Software Engineer, Open Source Server
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USFull-TimeStaff
Salary$212,000 – $286,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- Backend DevelopmentCloud ComputingElasticSearchClickhouseGoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong focus on backend or distributed systems
- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience writing concurrent production-grade code
- Deep understanding of system reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability engineering
- Experience with high-performance data systems such as Elasticsearch or ClickHouse
- Strong ability to analyze system behavior and improve performance, stability, and scalability
- Proven ability to work in complex, production-critical infrastructure environments
- Experience with Go or similar backend programming languages is a strong plus
- Familiarity with cloud or infrastructure environments is highly valued
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical direction across teams
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core backend service features for large-scale distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures
- Develop highly concurrent, reliable, and performant systems with strong emphasis on scalability and fault tolerance
- Provide comprehensive testing coverage, including unit, integration, and performance testing for owned features
- Define and maintain observability standards, including logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production readiness
- Document architectural decisions, system behavior, and operational procedures to ensure maintainability and clarity
- Improve system reliability, latency, and availability across multi-region environments
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design solutions that reduce complexity while improving developer velocity
- Support production systems through operational ownership and continuous performance optimization
- Contribute to the evolution of enterprise-grade and open-source backend infrastructure
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