Base Salary
$130k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs for high-volume customer interactions.
- Own platform work from problem framing and technical planning through implementation, rollout, and production support.
- Improve reliability, scalability, latency, and cost across shared platform systems.
- Partner with Product, SRE, and engineering teams to deliver platform improvements without destabilizing live traffic.
- Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, alerting improvements, runbook updates, deployment quality, and capacity planning.
- Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, and mentorship.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of experience building backend services and APIs in production, or equivalent practical depth.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go.
- Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker.
- Production ownership experience including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call support for high-scale services.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ, including reliability, performance, and scalability tradeoffs.
- Nice-to-have experience with Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, or IAM.
- Nice-to-have experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform.
- Experience with observability across metrics, logs, and traces is preferred.
- Experience scaling or migrating databases, including read replicas, cluster mode, or engine migrations, is preferred.
- Ability to work independently, collaborate clearly, exercise sound judgment during incidents, and mentor other engineers.
Benefits
- Remote-first work environment with regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings.
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
- Health and welfare plans, including an employer-paid employee-only plan, HSA contributions, and vision and dental coverage.
- Paid parental leave for birth, adoptive, and foster parents.
- One year of diaper delivery for new additions to the family.
- Monthly phone and internet allowance.
- Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits.
- Annual learning and development stipend for growth, certifications, and continued education.
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all employees.
Tech Stack
About Pindrop
Pindrop is the Real Human + Right Human® Platform for the AI era. As AI-driven fraud and deepfakes erode trust in digital communication, Pindrop delivers continuous identity verification and deepfake detection across voice, video, and digital interactions in real time. Enterprises rely on Pindrop to secure billions of high-risk customer interactions each year, including 7 of the top 10 U.S. banks and leading insurers and healthcare providers. Powered by models trained on more than 1.5 billion real-world interactions annually and protected by 300+ patents, Pindrop restores trust while reducing fraud, lowering operational costs, and improving customer experience. Recognized by TIME as one of 2025’s Best Inventions and by Inc. for Best in Business for Innovation, Pindrop is backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG. Learn more at pindrop.com.