Senior Backend Engineer

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Remote - USFull-TimeSenior

SalaryZone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670; Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270; Zone 3: All other US locations - $163,000 - $224,070

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Experience: 7+ years of experience building and operating production software
Required Skills: PythonAlgorithmsData StructuresGoRustDebuggingDistributed Systems

Requirements

Have 7+ years of experience building and operating production software, with a track record of meaningful customer or business impact.
Bring strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, API design, and distributed-systems concepts.
Have deep experience with a backend language such as Go, Python, Rust, or an equivalent language; most teams use Go.
Have experience designing systems that remain reliable, observable, secure, and maintainable as usage, complexity, and team ownership grow.
Demonstrate the ability to lead technical projects with ambiguous requirements, multiple stakeholders, or cross-team dependencies.
Use sound judgment when evaluating architecture, technology choices, operational risk, and short- versus long-term tradeoffs.
Explain complex technical decisions clearly and build alignment with technical and non-technical partners.
Have experience mentoring engineers and strengthening team practices through feedback, documentation, pairing, or technical leadership.
Show ownership of production outcomes and downstream customer impact.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of large or ambiguous backend projects, breaking them into milestones and aligning with partners.
Design, implement, test, and operate scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable production services and APIs.
Evaluate and communicate tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, cost, and delivery speed.
Identify architectural risks, performance bottlenecks, operational gaps, and technical friction, and drive durable improvements.
Improve observability and operability through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, service-level objectives, and incident follow-through.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, and engineering teams to understand needs and deliver customer outcomes.
Influence technical direction through design documents, architecture discussions, code reviews, and clear communication.
Mentor engineers and strengthen technical decision-making and team practices.
Participate in production support and incident response, turning operational lessons into lasting improvements.
Evolve engineering practices, reusable patterns, and developer experiences.

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