3 months ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$126k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services at petabyte scale.
- Build backend services and data pipelines for AI-powered legal-data solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide root-cause analysis.
- Influence reliability, security, performance, and engineering-quality practices.
- Lead design and code reviews and provide technical direction and mentorship.
- Drive service ownership through reliability efforts, on-call participation, incident response, resolution, and root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native systems.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native development, distributed architectures, distributed-systems fundamentals, replication, partitioning, and CAP/PACELC trade-offs.
- Ability to own and deliver complex solutions end to end through thoughtful design and thorough code reviews.
- Understanding of CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
- Track record diagnosing issues such as data skew, hot spots, clock skew, and split-brain scenarios.
- Successful acquisition and maintenance of a U.S. Public Trust clearance and U.S. citizenship for clearance eligibility.
- Preferred: experience building systems at scale and in high-scale or regulated environments.
- Preferred: familiarity with performance tuning, scalability trade-offs, storage engine internals including LSM trees, B-trees, compaction strategies, and write amplification.
- Preferred: familiarity with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and FedRAMP compliance frameworks.
- Required skills listed in the posting include budget management, contract management, data analysis, environmental regulations, policy development, project management, regulatory compliance, risk assessments, stakeholder communications, and strategic planning.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, annual performance bonus, long-term incentives, and an equity program.
- Health and retirement programs, wellness resources, discretionary time off, parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, and two annual company breaks.
- Home office stipend and volunteer opportunities through company-sponsored charitable programs.
- Hybrid/remote work arrangement is indicated in the posting.
- Growth opportunities across distributed systems, the broader software stack, and AI-enabled workflows.
Categories
BackendData Engineering