Gong.io

Senior Backend Engineer (Python)- Application Infrastructure

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Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain core Python infrastructure libraries and frameworks used across engineering teams.
  • Develop and support high-scale microservices and the shared foundations on which they run.
  • Build reusable infrastructure capabilities for data access, messaging, observability, and service communication.
  • Drive engineering standards for performance, observability, security, maintainability, and production readiness.
  • Drive CI/CD processes, deployment automation, and cloud-native operational practices.
  • Solve performance, concurrency, scalability, data, and production-runtime challenges across mission-critical services.
  • Improve developer experience and engineering workflows through reusable components and infrastructure foundations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems in production environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern Python service frameworks.
  • Experience building and maintaining shared libraries, including API design, versioning, backward compatibility, and packaging.
  • Deep understanding of Python concurrency models, including threading, multiprocessing, asyncio, and the GIL.
  • Solid understanding of operating-system fundamentals including processes, memory, networking, and I/O.
  • Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational data sources, including connection management and performance at scale.
  • Proven experience designing and operating microservices and event-driven architectures.
  • Strong experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Ability to drive technical solutions independently, collaborate across teams, and communicate technical concepts clearly.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model combining work from home, on the go, and from the office.
  • Employee ownership, autonomy, and opportunities to influence architecture, infrastructure, and engineering direction.
  • Equal opportunity workplace committed to fairness and inclusion.
Gong.io

About Gong.io

1,001-5,000 employees

Gong builds a revenue intelligence platform that captures and analyzes customer interactions (calls, emails, meetings) to deliver insights, coaching, and forecasting for sales and customer-success teams. It sells its software by subscription to businesses and integrates with common CRM and collaboration tools; more than 5,000 companies use it. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Gong is a privately held company.

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