4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Own PostgreSQL schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and database operations under load.
- Design data models that structurally enforce tenant isolation and data classification.
- Implement and verify retention, deletion, and minimization across derived data, replicas, caches, and backups.
- Build access control, audit logging, and system-generated compliance evidence for sensitive data.
- Partner with security and GRC to turn contractual and regulatory commitments into technical controls.
- Design and operate region-aware routing, storage, replication, failover, and data residency enforcement.
- Design public APIs and own their versioning, deprecation, backwards compatibility, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and idempotency behavior.
- Build internal tooling, admin surfaces, and operational dashboards.
- Operate and debug systems across services, data, and infrastructure while improving reliability, observability, testing, and deployment.
- Review code and raise the technical bar across the engineering team.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
- Deep PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, query optimization, and live migrations with real data.
- Strong backend skills in Go, Node.js, Python, Java, or a similar language, plus frontend ability with React or a comparable framework.
- Experience designing and maintaining customer-facing APIs with versioning and compatibility discipline.
- Hands-on cloud experience, preferably AWS, including storage, IAM, and encryption primitives.
- Experience handling sensitive or regulated data with hard access-control, retention, and deletion requirements.
- Sound judgment about idempotency, safe retries, failure handling, and load-related failure modes.
- Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team.
- Bonus experience with multi-region or data-residency-constrained systems, data-layer multi-tenant isolation, BIPA or GDPR implementation, audited environments such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, identity or security products, and production incidents, observability, or reliability.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship.
Benefits
- Remote-first, US-based team with regular in-person time.
- Quarterly team offsites.
- Flexible schedules.
- Meaningful equity ownership.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible paid time off.
- New computer hardware and equipment.
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About Nametag
Nametag builds enterprise identity verification and authentication tools for secure onboarding, helpdesk verification, and self-service account recovery to prevent social engineering and deepfake impersonation. The privately held company, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Seattle, sells through software integrations and ready-to-use workflows. Its platform is used across industries including healthcare, insurance, financial services, higher education, and software.