Senior Engineer, Core

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, manage, operate, and maintain Doppler’s services, APIs, and data systems.

• Create the next phase of scaling, focusing on reliability, performance, and foundational infrastructure.

• Establish dependable agentic patterns with shared context, guardrails, and review processes.

• Set an example by utilizing AI while ensuring security and quality are maintained.

• Take ownership of system designs and impact engineering standards.

• Work collaboratively with engineers to transform ambiguous product challenges into robust, operational systems.

• Implement a security-first mindset.

• Elevate engineering standards through code reviews, design evaluations, and mentorship.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building and maintaining production software systems.

• Strong technical foundation with well-informed opinions on service and API design.

• Extensive data experience, including schema design, query performance, and executing migrations under live traffic conditions.

• Familiarity with distributed systems, encompassing failure modes, trade-offs, and design considerations for both.

• Proven experience in managing production systems at scale and implementing significant changes without causing downtime.

• End-to-end ownership of services, including deployment, monitoring dashboards, and production troubleshooting.

• Daily, in-depth fluency with AI and agentic tooling.

• Genuine involvement in the AI industry and the ability to differentiate between reality and hype.

• Strong human judgment and the ability to articulate and defend deployed code without reliance on tools.

• Pragmatic mindset in choosing robust solutions over simpler ones.

• Openness to address situations beyond the outlined job responsibilities.

• Knowledge and enthusiasm for security-first engineering practices.

• Proficiency in typed programming languages, particularly Go and/or TypeScript.

• Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, etc.), and a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure).

• Background in developing multi-tenant systems with guarantees for isolation.

• Experience in designing or maintaining public APIs in scaled production settings.

• Capability to release and support multiple versions simultaneously.

• Passion for mentoring others and contributing to engineering culture.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision).

• Guilt-free Unlimited PTO, with a strong encouragement of a minimum of 3 weeks off!

• Opportunities for upward mobility.

• Learning and development stipend.

• Access to a wealth advisor.

• 401k plan.

• Pregnancy and family leave.

• Fertility and adoption assistance.

• Equal compensation regardless of gender or race.

• Flexible working hours.

• Default to zero meetings.

• Communication via Slack.

• Remote work flexibility.