Senior Backend Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain functionalities within the core Python API.

• Create, build, and manage workflow orchestration for extensive, long-duration workloads.

• Construct orchestration that scales across simultaneous workflows, providing visibility into progress, failures, and throughput.

• Optimize and safely refactor intricate SQL in a production environment.

• Develop and manage high-throughput data processing and ETL pipelines.

• Contribute to the architecture of the AWS datalake, focusing on storage layout, partitioning, schema evolution, and query performance.

• Deploy and oversee services on Kubernetes.

• Engage in cluster operations, release management, and capacity planning.

• Develop and enhance GraphQL and graph-based APIs.

• Take ownership of observability, uptime, and scalability, including metrics, tracing, alerting, and on-call participation.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver capabilities that enhance user experience.

• Play a role in systems architecture decisions and author design documentation.

• Work with frontend team members to present data effectively and enhance user experience.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• Over 7 years of professional software engineering experience with modern object-oriented or functional languages.

• Proven experience in building and managing workflow orchestration or distributed task-processing systems in a production setting.

• Practical experience in designing and constructing high-throughput data processing systems and ETL pipelines.

• Experience in building applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Capability to lead and manage multiple concurrent initiatives.

• A reliability-focused mindset for distributed work, including handling retries, partial failures, and recovery.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Proficient technical writing skills for design documents, runbooks, and API documentation.

• Ability to work collaboratively with designers, developers, and product managers.

• Only US persons may interview due to customer/vendor security clearance requirements.

• Must be eligible for and successfully obtain a US Federal Security Clearance as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time positions.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance coverage for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• An inclusive and collaborative work culture.

• A fully remote work model.

• Up to 5% travel.