Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Cloud Orchestration
Summary
Senior backend engineer building Prefect Cloud’s distributed task orchestration engine, optimizing query engines and data-processing runtimes for billions of daily tasks.
Prefect invites a senior back-end leaning product engineer to join the Prefect Cloud team. The role focuses on scaling from millions to billions of tasks per day, owning distributed systems, and contributing to a fast-moving, customer-driven environment.
You will design and optimize query engines, analytical components, and data-processing runtimes, with strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and collaboration across a small team.