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Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Insights

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You will design, build, and evolve Go-based backend services for the Data Insights Platform and Siphon. You will own key architectural components, improve reliability and production readiness, and troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues. You will collaborate asynchronously on technical design, planning, code review, deployment, and documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and evolve Go backend services for scalable data ingestion, transport, replication, storage, querying, and deployment.
  • Own significant parts of the backend architecture for Data Insights Platform, Siphon, and the Query API.
  • Shape system boundaries, reliability, throughput, operability, and maintainability.
  • Contribute to replication, buffering, query-serving, and query-oriented storage systems.
  • Drive production readiness and deployment across SaaS, Dedicated, and Self-Managed environments.
  • Debug and improve distributed-system performance, scaling, failure recovery, and observability.
  • Collaborate on technical design, planning, code review, and delivery.
  • Use AI for implementation, debugging, investigation, and documentation.

Requirements

  • Backend engineering experience in Go, including building and operating production services.
  • Experience designing scalable, reliable systems for high-throughput or data-intensive workloads.
  • Experience building APIs and service integrations, including gRPC or similar patterns.
  • Experience with data platforms, data systems, event pipelines, or foundational infrastructure.
  • Experience with ClickHouse or similar query-focused data stores.
  • Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails or the ability to ramp up quickly.
  • Experience with reliability, observability, performance, and deployment in production environments.
  • Experience delivering platform capabilities across team boundaries.

Benefits

  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Parental leave.

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