2 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$143k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain systems that provide efficient access to new and growing datasets.
- Extend and improve services supporting internal data search and image processing.
- Operate and tune Elasticsearch indexing for core datasets.
- Own services end to end by measuring performance, creating alerts, participating in on-call rotations, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies.
- Determine methods and procedures for complex assignments and deliver solutions across variable technical factors.
- Advise other engineers and lead project teams or oversee lower-level engineers’ assignments.
- Contribute to the technical roadmap and shape architectural direction.
- Participate in design reviews and drive alignment on technical decisions.
Requirements
- Require 6–8 years of software engineering experience.
- Require production backend service and API development experience using Go, Python, or similar modern languages.
- Require fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude or Copilot.
- Require experience monitoring and operating highly scalable cloud-native software.
- Require experience with relational datastores such as PostgreSQL or MySQL and non-relational datastores such as BigTable or Elasticsearch.
- Require experience building, releasing, and supporting highly available and consistently performant services.
- Require strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote setting.
- Require experience improving codebases, documentation, and team practices beyond feature work.
- Require sound judgment in selecting methods and adapting complex techniques for results.
- Require the ability to advise team members on complex technical matters and adapt communication to key contacts.
- Require the ability to analyze complex issues and provide in-depth technical evaluations of distributed backend services.
- Prefer 6+ years of Go experience building production backend services.
- Prefer 6+ years of Python experience building customer-facing APIs.
- Prefer experience maintaining infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Prefer experience with cloud-based infrastructure and tooling such as AWS or GCP.
- Prefer experience working with geospatial data.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Health Savings Account with a company contribution.
- Generous paid time off, holidays, and company-wide days off.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs.
- Home office reimbursement.
- Monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
- Tuition reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Equity and commuter benefits for employees local to an office.
- Paid volunteer time off.
- Full-time remote work in the United States or Canada; employees near an office are expected to work there three days per week.