Backend Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the API and job queues that handle every sticker request.

• Oversee and enhance the real-time connection layer for devices, collaborating with the firmware engineer.

• Optimize and expand autoscaling to manage holiday spikes and a growing device fleet, working with the ML Serving engineer on GPU inference.

• Enhance observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts.

• Develop cost instrumentation for requests, models, and services.

• Manage release engineering for server-side services, ensuring safe deployments, database migrations, and quick rollbacks.

• Collaborate with the Trust & Safety engineer on abuse prevention, device security, and privacy issues for a children's product.

• Share on-call duties and continuously improve the rotation.

• Strengthen, scale, and set standards for backend foundations as the team expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficiency in Python and PostgreSQL.

• Experience with Elixir or a strong interest in learning it.

• Proven experience in owning production infrastructure from start to finish.

• Demonstrated ability to scale a queue-driven or real-time system through significant traffic growth.

• Comfortable being on-call for systems you manage.

• Capable of working on systems that are fast, safe for children, and cost-effective at scale.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for growth and career advancement.

• Flexible working hours.

• A culture of innovation, collaboration, and enjoyment.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Additional fun perks!

• Reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.

• Opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers.