6 months ago
Base Salary
$198k - $319k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the technical solution for a new product.
- Help shape the product with peers in Product and Design.
- Mentor other technical team members.
- Be the technical point of contact for the team.
- Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade, distributed systems at scale.
- Technical leadership across multiple teams or domains, with a proven ability to drive architectural vision.
- Expertise in designing and evolving large-scale, cloud-native systems.
- Demonstrated experience building secure, resilient, and high-throughput backend services.
- Fluency in Go or another modern systems language.
- Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals applied in complex, multi-service environments.
- Proven track record of technical mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.
- Deep experience with major cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Excellent communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life.
- Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break.
- Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work.
- 16 weeks of paid Parental leave.
- Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month.
- PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy.
- Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes.
- Equity; we want all employees to have a share in the success of the company.
- Docker Swag.
- Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country.
- Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris.