Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps
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JobgetherSecurity & IT
United States-basedFull-TimeStaff
Salary$152,800–$259,200 USD
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- KubernetesGoRustDevOps
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading significant technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams or broad product areas.
- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, platforms, APIs, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.
- Proven experience modernizing monolithic or legacy backend architectures in production using approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries.
- Strong ability to build technical alignment through clear written proposals, architecture documentation, and decision records.
- Experience balancing customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investments.
- Strong mentoring and leadership skills, with experience shaping engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, and established practices.
- Production experience using AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows and improving how teams integrate these tools into their development processes.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical direction without relying on formal authority.
- Comfortable working independently in a remote, asynchronous engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of backend initiatives spanning multiple teams, identifying and resolving systemic engineering bottlenecks.
- Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including the modernization of monolithic and legacy systems.
- Define and improve engineering standards covering APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, and maintainability.
- Establish effective patterns for dependency management, data ownership, event-driven architectures, failure isolation, and service maturity.
- Guide Go service architecture and Kubernetes operating practices, while supporting the adoption of Rust for systems, security, and performance.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, acting as a technical escalation point for complex production issues.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape platform roadmaps, technical priorities, and investment decisions.
- Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, and develop reusable patterns to improve engineering productivity.
- Lead the responsible adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows with appropriate security and operational safeguards.
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