Staff Software Engineer, Backend

What you’ll do

• Be an early member of a thriving startup and become the best version of yourself
• Help building a cutting edge observability product that can analyze PBs of data daily
• Work with ex-Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Meta engineers and have fun doing it
• Be a subject matter expert in multiple components, design and implement the most complex features with no guidance
• Bring or develop new know-how to the company that produce a material impact on the business
• Continually identify gaps and champion improvement to the architecture, technology and processes
• Provide technical guidance and act as a stakeholder during roadmap planning
• Multiply other engineers’ output through mentorship, documentation and/or building tools & best practices
• Work regularly with the product team, and occasionally interface with our Sales and Customer Success teams as well as directly with customers

You’ll definitely need

• A Bachelor's, Masters, or PhD Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of industry experience
• Ability to write production quality code using a modern development stack
• Ability to provide concise and high value feedback during code reviews
• Experience in designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients
• Hands on practice in building and operating large scale production systems with a deep care for customer experience
• Hands on experience in using monitoring & troubleshooting solutions such as Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, SumoLogic etc.
• Proficiency in using control systems (e.g. git), automated build-and-test frameworks, and CI/CD tools
• Strong leadership and technical communication skills, with the ability to write in English fluently and idiomatically

What would wow us

• Startup experience
• Domain expertise and industry experience in Observability
• Experience with modern DevOps stack such Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker & AWS/Azure
• A PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• History of maintaining or contributing to open source projects

Benefits

This is a remote role that can be done from anywhere in the US. We offer competitive salary, unlimited PTO, flexible remote work opportunities, stock option equity, comprehensive Medical/Vision/Dental.

Last updated on Oct 9, 2023