Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus)
Fingerprint2 months ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize high-performance backend systems, APIs, real-time data processing services, and web services.
- Define and own SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability tradeoffs for Core API services.
- Build observability through metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
- Participate in shared on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and lead blameless postmortems.
- Automate recurring operational work, resolve incident action items, and reduce operational toil.
- Conduct capacity planning, load testing, performance tuning, and deep technical investigations.
- Integrate backend components with other services and collaborate on cross-functional engineering projects.
- Mentor developers and promote reliability-focused engineering practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience, including meaningful experience operating production systems.
- Formal SRE experience with error-budget policies, capacity models, production-readiness reviews, and chaos or fault-injection testing.
- Strong experience with Go and/or Node.js and scalable backend system design.
- Experience building APIs, real-time data processing systems, and microservices.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for production services.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, including service instrumentation, dashboards, monitoring, logging, and tracing.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations, triaging incidents, mitigating impact, and documenting outcomes.
- Strong SQL knowledge and experience with DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
- Proficiency with Git, development environments, and shell scripting.
- Fluent English communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Strong interest in mentoring and developing junior team members.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience is preferred.
- Experience with ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks is preferred.
- Experience with performance profiling, high-throughput cloud cost optimization, large open-source projects, both Node.js and Go, and Internet security and privacy mechanisms is preferred.
Benefits
- 100% remote work in a globally distributed company.
- Shared on-call schedule communicated in advance, with an effort to balance coverage and minimize off-hours disruptions.
- Employees must be authorized to work from their home location; the company does not sponsor visas and cannot employ teammates in a small number of countries.
- Inclusive workplace focused on respecting and empowering employees from diverse backgrounds.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftAWSClickHouseDatabricksDatadogdbtDockerElasticsearchExpressGitGoGoogle BigQueryKubernetesNode.jsRedisSnowflakeSQLTerraformTypeScript
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Fingerprint
Fingerprint builds a device intelligence platform and APIs that help fraud, risk, and security teams identify users, bots, and risky activity in real time. The company offers commercial SaaS for device fingerprinting and fraud prevention, alongside the open-source FingerprintJS project used by developers. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and counts customers such as Dropbox, Booking.com, and Plaid.