Backend Engineer – Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain.

📋 Description

• Engaging in essential backend services and shared platform components that facilitate ingestion, request routing, caching, reliability, and production operations.

• Analyzing and resolving bottlenecks to enhance performance in critical areas.

• Minimizing operational burdens by transforming manual or fragile processes into repeatable, well-managed systems.

• Assisting with incident prevention, conducting operational reviews, and performing follow-up tasks after reliability challenges.

• Ensuring key dependencies are up-to-date and operationally secure.

• Enhancing the observability stack, including telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and long-term visibility into system health.

• Handling Kubernetes lifecycle tasks, cluster-level infrastructure, or deployment safety.

• Strengthening CI/CD foundations to enable teams to deploy and manage changes with greater confidence.

• Accelerating the development and testing environments to make them faster, more stable, and more beneficial for engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• You possess extensive experience in constructing backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure components, or high-volume production systems.

• You are highly skilled in **Python**, which is essential for this position.

• You are adept at working closely with production: troubleshooting incidents, comprehending system behavior, enhancing observability, and increasing service reliability.

• You enjoy addressing low-level and systemic challenges, not just delivering new features.

• You prioritize performance, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and operational simplicity.

• You are pragmatic: able to move swiftly when necessary, yet aware of when stability, safety, and maintainability take precedence.

• You demonstrate **ownership**, ensuring follow-through and progress even in ambiguous situations.

• You have an interest in data and SQL, and you are eager to understand the workings of real-time analytical systems.

• You communicate effectively in writing, which is crucial as we operate asynchronously, document decisions, write operational notes, and share context across teams.

• You utilize **AI tools** such as Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or others to enhance productivity, avoid obstacles, and refine your work processes.

• You are proficient in **English and Spanish**. English is the primary language used at Tinybird, while Spanish is commonly spoken within the Platform team.

• You are open to participating in on-call rotations, not only to maintain service health but also to gain insights into the real challenges faced by our customers and internal teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• 22 days of vacation per year (in addition to your birthday and public holidays).

• Flexibility to work from any location that suits you best.

• We offer up to €2,400 to assist you in establishing your home workspace.