Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing

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

📋 Description

• Define the technical strategy for services related to customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits.

• Create robust licensing and access-rule frameworks and workflows for direct and MSP/MSPP accounts.

• Oversee complex initiatives across services and customer-account models while actively participating in implementation.

• Develop patterns for data accuracy, secure migrations, API enhancements, observability, and production support.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on requirements, integrations, and trade-offs that influence customer access and usage.

• Guide engineers through design reviews, code assessments, collaborative programming, and technical documentation.

• Take ownership of challenging production issues and foster improvements that minimize recurrence and operational strain.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement.

• Influence the scalability of licensing and entitlement capabilities across both direct and partner accounts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Significant experience in backend services and APIs.

• Proven history of leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production-critical systems.

• Strong proficiency in SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability.

• Experience in influencing technical decisions across teams and mentoring engineers.

• Excellent judgment in balancing correctness, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed.

• Extensive experience in building and managing backend services using Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.

• Strong background in SQL and relational data modeling.

• Experience with API and service design for production environments.

• Experience in developing cloud-hosted services.

• Familiarity with operating containerized applications such as Docker.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes or a similar orchestrator.

• Experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing workflows, or feature access controls is a plus.

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account models is a plus.

• Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, event-driven, or distributed systems is a plus.

• Familiarity with Kafka or other event-streaming systems, Temporal or Prefect, and production observability platforms is advantageous.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

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

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

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• An inclusive culture.

• A collaborative environment that fosters creativity and innovative thinking.

• Options for remote and hybrid work models depending on the role and location.

• Up to 5% travel.