2 months ago
Base Salary
$215k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and optimize scalable backend systems and services.
- Build new features and enhance existing backend systems with other engineers.
- Participate in production operations and rotational incident response.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, leadership, sales, support engineering, and customers.
- Improve planning, development, and deployment processes.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 7 years of experience building backend applications with a modern programming language.
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing platforms.
- Experience with modern data storage solutions such as MySQL, Postgres, or MongoDB.
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and web development best practices.
- Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Fully remote role open to candidates across the US, with company offsites a few times per year.
- 100% company-covered employee medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Unlimited PTO and flexible working hours.
- 401k plan.
- Gender-neutral parental leave.
- $1,000 yearly Learning & Development stipend.
- $400 monthly perks stipend.
- Pet insurance.
- Competitive equity package and benefits eligibility.
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About Cortex
Cortex builds an engineering operations platform and internal developer portal for software teams to catalog services, assign ownership, set standards, and measure reliability, security, and cost with automated scorecards and golden paths. Delivered as a SaaS, it is used by enterprises to improve SDLC visibility and reduce developer friction; notable customers include Canva, Blackstone, and Grammarly. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and raised a Series C in 2024.