6 days ago
Base Salary
$190k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and scale backend systems including data sync pipelines, search APIs, email/SMS delivery, and workflow automation.
- Drive platform projects involving rate limiting, tenant isolation, database scaling, and indexing infrastructure.
- Participate in the shared platform on-call rotation and lead post-incident reviews.
- Improve observability, resilience, consistency, and fail-closed behavior across core systems.
- Shape the backend foundation for agentic research workflows operating at scale.
- Influence architectural decisions and establish engineering standards across the backend stack.
- Collaborate with product, design, go-to-market, Data Integrity, Scheduling, and Agents teams.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and operating complex backend systems in production.
- Deep experience with distributed-systems correctness, consistency models, idempotency, CDC pipelines, and fail-closed design.
- Experience building or operating agentic or AI-native systems with rules, identity, and audit enforcement for autonomous agents.
- Hands-on production-scale experience with event-driven architectures, streaming infrastructure such as Kafka, workflow orchestration such as Temporal, and search infrastructure such as Elasticsearch.
- Deep experience with AWS managed services including ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, MSK, and DynamoDB.
- Strong understanding of observability, including metrics, logs, traces, SLI/SLO design, on-call work, and production incident response.
- Comfort using AI coding tools such as Claude and Codex for writing, reviewing, and shipping code.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering and cross-functional teams.
- Preferred experience as an early or founding platform-team member and familiarity with GraphQL APIs, Prisma ORM, and TypeScript/Node.js.
Benefits
- Remote-first role across the US, with hubs in New York and Boston.
- Competitive pay and meaningful equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for every parent.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Home office and co-working stipends.
- Mental health and wellness support.
- 401(k).
- In-person team gatherings a few times a year.
- US-based full-time employee benefits may vary by role, level, and location.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Rally
Rally builds a SaaS user research CRM that helps product and UX teams recruit participants, manage outreach and scheduling, and run studies. Sold by subscription, it centralizes user panels and communications to gather feedback across research workflows. The company is privately held and headquartered in New York.