2 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Python and Go.
- Design resilient APIs, optimize data pipelines, and improve system performance and reliability.
- Own and evolve parts of our cloud infrastructure, including environment configuration and access patterns.
- Implement and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform or equivalent.
- Design and maintain containerized services using Docker and modern deployment workflows.
- Integrate and test data from third-party APIs, including LLM providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Manage performance, cost, and observability across AI integrations and backend systems.
- Debug and troubleshoot issues across application and infrastructure layers.
- Simplify and scale complex systems to support product growth and increasing data volume.
- Influence long-term technical direction and backend architecture.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and coaching.
- Collaborate across the stack to ship product features quickly and reliably.
Requirements
- 7+ years building and owning resilient, high-performance backend systems for user-facing or B2B products.
- Strong software engineering discipline with a focus on designing testable systems.
- Deep proficiency in Python (or similar) and experience designing distributed systems.
- Experience operating production workloads in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar).
- Proven ability to improve performance and reliability of ambiguous or legacy systems.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or equivalent.
- Proficiency in designing and deploying containerized services using Docker.
- Experience with scalable data models and databases such as MongoDB.
- Ability to integrate and operate third-party APIs at scale.
- Familiarity with observability tooling to monitor and improve production systems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction.
- Experience leveraging LLMs or AI tooling to improve engineering workflows.
- Must be able to work in the Seattle or NYC office 3 days per week.
Benefits
- Competitive Equity.
- Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage.
- Generous Paid Time Off.
- Commuter Benefits.