Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design, build, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services, treating reliability, latency, and cost as first-class constraints.
• - Own SLIs and SLOs for Core API services, using error budgets to balance shipping velocity against stability.
• - Build the observability that makes systems debuggable — metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerts that fire on user-visible symptoms, not noise.
• - Share an on-call rotation, respond effectively to incidents, and lead blameless postmortems.
• - Reduce operational toil through automation, and close out incident action items so the same failure doesn't recur.
• - Run capacity planning, load testing, and performance tuning so the platform scales ahead of demand.
• - Partner with cross-functional teams on integrations, and mentor other engineers as they grow.

Required Skills

• - 5+ years in backend development, including meaningful time operating what you built in production.
• - Strong, demonstrated experience with Go, and with scalable APIs, real-time data processing, and microservices.
• - Hands-on experience running production services with Docker and Kubernetes, and with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• - Working fluency with observability tooling (Datadog or comparable) — instrumenting services and building useful dashboards and alerts.
• - On-call experience: triaging live incidents, mitigating impact, and writing up what happened.
• - Strong SQL, plus experience with databases like DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
• - Proficiency with Git, shell scripting, and CI/CD, and fluency in English for a global, remote team.
• - Able to work independently in ambiguous environments with direct stakeholder contact, and eager to mentor junior engineers.
• - BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.