Staff Backend Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Create and implement highly scalable backend services that prioritize performance and security.

• Work collaboratively with designers, scientists, and engineers to develop products that address challenges in laboratory settings.

• Contribute to shaping technical and product strategies, including feature selection and implementation choices.

• Maintain high-availability operations through modern reliability methodologies and comprehensive observability.

• Engage in an on-call rotation to ensure service continuity.

• Take part in code reviews to uphold code quality standards.

• Diagnose and resolve performance and security-related issues.

• Promote healthy and sustainable software development practices.

• Enhance the hybrid object/graph multi-tenant data repository for biology and chemistry experiments.

• Develop services that collect real-time sensor data for operator feedback and cloud-based processing.

• Construct a service for the secure distribution and execution of simulation, analysis, and testing code within SLL.

• Collaborate with the Scientific Development team on data storage, retrieval, and search functionalities in SLL.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in backend development for products and enterprise software.

• At least 6 years of hands-on experience with Cloud or AWS development.

• Proficiency with database technologies, including SQL or NoSQL.

• Experience working in startups or rapidly growing companies.

• Full lifecycle experience in software product development.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker for containerization.

• Preferred: Experience with distributed systems.

• Preferred: Strong analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail.

• Preferred: Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern build tools.

• Preferred: Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, and observability practices.

• Experience with backend services using Go, Python, or Rust.

• Proficient in AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes infrastructure.

• Familiarity with GitHub and Travis CI, relevant to the specified technology stack.

🏝️ Benefits

• Implementation of continuous integration and agile development methodologies.

• Involvement in an on-call rotation.

• Flexible remote work options.