16 hours ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$192k - $455k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build high-throughput backend services that process real-time operational data.
- Lead technical design reviews and make architecture decisions for new features and system improvements.
- Design resilient, observable, performance-tuned event-driven and distributed systems.
- Define stable APIs for internal and external consumers and partner with frontend teams on integration.
- Improve engineering practices through code reviews, standards, testing strategy, and incident practices.
- Build and maintain CI/CD workflows for rapid and secure delivery.
- Troubleshoot production issues, lead incident response, and drive durable fixes.
- Translate product and operational needs into technical plans and contribute to backend strategy and roadmap planning.
- Mentor engineers and support hiring through interviews and defining engineering standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years building scalable backend systems in production environments.
- 4+ years of Go experience, or 4+ years writing server-side business logic in Java, Kotlin, C#, Python, C, C++, or Rust with strong system-design aptitude.
- Experience leading technical initiatives end to end, including architecture, execution, and delivery.
- Experience designing distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, messaging, and consistency tradeoffs.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native services in production; AWS is preferred.
- Strong security fundamentals including secure coding, threat modeling, and defensible design.
- Track record of mentoring engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and feedback.
- Strong communication skills and ability to align teams around technical decisions.
- Preferred experience with graph databases such as Neo4j or AWS Neptune, relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, or MariaDB, defense or security-focused products, large-scale data processing, and production ML/AI integrations.
- U.S. citizenship is required; some positions may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, and disability plan options.
- Paid parental leave for eligible full-time employees, including 12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing parents, and 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents through surrogacy.
- Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
- 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options, HSA/FSA options, and dependent care FSA.
- Full-time, on-site role; benefits vary by location, role, and eligibility.
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