Senior Backend Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Create, migrate, and manage systems for the ingestion, processing, storage, and lifecycle management of images, videos, and documents.

• Lead comprehensive migrations of outdated media-processing services to a contemporary platform.

• Develop data models, dual-write/backfill strategies, phased cutover plans, rollback strategies, and legacy system cleanup.

• Construct Kafka/event-schema-based consumers and producers to facilitate asynchronous media-processing workflows.

• Execute GDPR-compliant hard-deletion workflows across storage and CDN layers.

• Incorporate personal data detection, content integrity verification, and safe content transformation into upload and creation processes.

• Establish and maintain integrations with external transcoding and processing vendors.

• Manage webhooks, rate limiting, and scenarios involving failures.

• Draft on-call runbooks and alerting mechanisms for critical endpoints.

• Oversee service mesh permissions, adjust consumer/throughput settings, and address memory, latency, and backpressure challenges.

• Design and expand database schemas and GraphQL/API layers for media entities.

• Collaborate with trust and safety, privacy, and related platform teams to convert compliance and product requirements into pipeline modifications.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of backend software engineering experience, preferably with high-scale distributed systems.

• Extensive experience in event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar), service meshes, and microservice-to-microservice integration.

• Proven track record of managing large-scale service migrations, including safe cutover strategies, backfills, and rollback plans.

• Strong foundation in relational/NoSQL data modeling and schema evolution.

• Familiarity with caching layers (e.g., Redis), CDC/change-data-capture pipelines, and cache invalidation strategies.

• Comfortable with operational responsibilities, including writing alerts, runbooks, and troubleshooting production incidents.

• Experience with media/video processing pipelines, third-party transcoding vendors, or content safety systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Vacation: 12-25 days, based on grade.

• Company-paid holidays.

• Personal Days.

• Sick Leave.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada).

• Retirement savings plans (e.g., RRSP in Canada).

• Life and disability insurance.

• Employee assistance programs.

• Additional benefits as determined by local policy and eligibility.

• Possible eligibility for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions.