Senior Backend Engineer (High-Throughput Platforms)

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on high-throughput platform development to design, build, and operate the foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on to deliver their products.

What You Will Do

Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure, architect high-throughput backend platforms, build durable event-processing pipelines, and design and operate caching, rate-limiting, and request-shaping layers.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate combines deep distributed systems expertise with strong platform-engineering instincts, values internal developer experience as a first-class concern, and has a track record of leading multi-quarter platform initiatives that meaningfully raise the engineering bar for the organizations they support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with rigorous attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
• Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key-value, document, and search workloads.
• Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to author crisp technical design documents and present trade-offs clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding contributions.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
• 100% remote work option.
• Long-term, multi-year employment engagement.
• H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates.
• Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.