Senior Backend Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer (IC6), you will deliver complex systems across software, infrastructure, networking, and security. You will:

• Scope work into well-defined milestones and estimate delivery timelines.
• Resolve a wide range of technical issues creatively.
• Write clear, maintainable code that other engineers can extend with confidence.
• Work closely with cross-team stakeholders to define requirements and deliver software that delights customers.
• Be a go-to expert in at least one area of the codebase.
• Participate in a collaborative engineering environment, supporting and helping others.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one core programming language.
• Comfortable using coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) including networking constructs.
• Experience working across multiple layers of the stack: application, database, infrastructure, or security.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-team stakeholders to define requirements.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Experience on multiple teams or in multiple roles.
• Strong proficiency in one or more of: Python, TypeScript, Go.
• Deep involvement with complex, production-grade APIs and services.
• Strong understanding of cloud execution environments and architectural decisions.
• Strong understanding of databases, caches, queues, events, and workers.
• Solid understanding of network fundamentals: routing, switching, VPN protocols, DNS, and firewalls.
• Strong understanding of network security principles and hardening practices.
• A willingness to accept failure and feedback, learn and try again.
• A passion for learning new disciplines and gaining a deep understanding of team dynamics.
• An ability to communicate clearly and succinctly both in-person and over team chat.

Requirements

• Design, scope, and deliver systems from architecture through implementation and testing.
• Scope and stage work into well-defined milestones.
• Estimate projects and communicate risks when timelines shift.
• Write well-tested code designed to last.
• Create model documentation for others to reference.
• Resolve technical issues across software, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Select methods that result in low-defect, high-performance software.
• Identify and address problems in your own and others' work early.
• Own reliability, monitoring, logging, and instrumentation of systems.
• Ensure systems meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Continuously improve system quality, automation, and operational maturity.
• Communicate effectively across teams to surface requirements problems early.
• Partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to technical discussions influencing broader engineering direction.
• Informally mentor IC1 and IC2 engineers through code review and pairing.
• Participate in evaluation portions of interview loops.

Benefits

• Salary range for role: $150,000-$169,000.00
• 401(k) with company match
• Generous paid time off and holidays
• Performance bonus and equity eligible
• Remote work
• Medical, vision, dental insurance