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Senior Backend Engineer

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Summary

Senior backend engineer building and scaling distributed systems for Eight Sleep’s smart bed platform, handling 5Tb/day data and 30+ microservices.

Role Description

Eight Sleep is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help us expand our product features and our capability to scale. We have distributed back-end systems responsible for critical business logic as well as bridging communications/data flows between our embedded, machine learning, mobile, and business intelligence systems. We are seeking someone who is passionate about designing, implementing, and supporting distributed systems and appreciates the impact they have on all aspects of the member experience. We look for people who dig under the hood and understand what the technology is doing, so we can make wise decisions about how our technology should solve and evolve.

What You'll Help Build

  • Maintain and improve the integrity of our data processing pipeline (5Tb per day)
  • Develop tools to guarantee the availability of our services (~30 microservices) and automate their operation
  • Contribute to the development of back-end services and product features

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer/SRE
  • Language polyglot, advanced experience with at least 2 out of Java (Scala or Kotlin), C# (or F#) (.NET core), Python, NodeJS+TypeScript
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of cloud services

Benefits

  • Every Eight Sleep employee receives the very product that defines our mission: a Pod of their own.
  • Full access to health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • Commuter benefits to ease your daily commute
  • Paid parental leave

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