2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Expand DevDawg cloud development environments and Spice automated review and root-cause tooling.
- Build shared API-layer foundations including REST blueprints, GraphQL schemas, OpenAPI patterns, realtime capabilities, authentication, and permissions.
- Modernize the backend framework layer, including migration paths from Flask to FastAPI and support for web and asynchronous compute.
- Own observability, metrics, alerting, production readiness standards, and the underlying causes identified through incident reviews.
- Build shared backend services and primitives for eventing, event logs, database-change safety, migrations, delegated access, auditability, internal administration, and support APIs.
- Set guardrails for coding agents through static analysis, linting, hooks, and test harnesses.
- Partner with infrastructure teams while owning the application layer above AWS, Kubernetes, and datastores.
Requirements
- Seasoned Python engineering experience with the ability to establish architectural patterns.
- Meaningful production experience shipping LLM-backed or agentic work to real users.
- Hands-on use of coding agents and a well-developed perspective on their benefits and limitations.
- Production experience with observability, telemetry, metrics, tracing, alerting, Sentry, and incident response.
- Experience designing and shipping internet-facing APIs.
- Experience owning systems with customer impact, debugging production incidents, and working with latency or reliability requirements.
- Ability to build pragmatic initial versions and work directly with internal engineering customers.
- Experience with Go, Rust, or TypeScript is welcome.
- The role is open at Senior and Staff levels, with level calibration during the hiring process.
Benefits
- 100% remote work in the USA.
- Approximately five weeks of PTO initially, plus a one-week winter holiday break and paid US holidays; PTO increases by two days for each year of tenure.
- Option to work a standard five-day week or a four-day week at 80% pay, agreed with the manager.
- Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
- One-month paid sabbatical every five years.
- For US residents, medical plans with Close covering most of the premium, plus dental, vision, HSA, FSA, and company-paid long-term disability coverage.
- For US residents, 401(k) matching up to 6% with immediate vesting.
- Annual company gatherings, with the 2027 gathering planned for Dusseldorf, Germany.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSDockerElasticsearchFastAPIFlaskGitHub ActionsGraphQLJavaScriptKubernetesMongoDBPostgreSQLPythonRedisRustTerraformTypeScript
About Close
Close builds a sales CRM for founders, startups, and small businesses, combining pipeline management with built-in calling, email, SMS, automation, and AI (including its Chloe agent). It sells subscription SaaS that helps inside sales teams communicate with prospects and manage deals from one platform. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Close is privately held, bootstrapped, and profitable.