Staff Software Engineer - Platform
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Job Description
About the Role:
We are looking for a Staff Backend Platform Engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems microservices architecture and cloudnative backend engineering. This role requires strong operational excellence ensuring system reliability scalability and observability while driving best practices in incident management performance tuning and automation.
Key Responsibilities:
System Architecture & Scalability
- Design & Build: Architect and develop scalable faulttolerant backend systems that handle millions of requests per second.
- Microservices Development: Implement microservices using Go Java or Python ensuring high availability and resilience.
- Cloud & Kubernetes: Deploy and manage applications on AWS GCP or Azure with Kubernetes (EKS GKE AKS).
- EventDriven Architectures: Work with Kafka Pulsar RabbitMQ for distributed messaging and streaming workloads.
Operational Excellence & Incident Management
- Reliability & Resilience: Implement best practices for graceful degradation retries circuit breakers and autoscaling.
- Incident Response & OnCall Management: Define SLAs/SLIs/SLOs set up robust alerting & escalation processes for incident handling.
- Postmortems & RCA (Root Cause Analysis): Lead postincident analysis drive corrective actions and improve system reliability.
- Observability & Monitoring: Define and implement logging monitoring and distributed tracing using Prometheus OpenTelemetry Grafana Datadog.
Performance Optimization & Security
- Performance Tuning: Diagnose and optimize latency throughput and memory utilization for largescale distributed systems.
- Multithreading & Concurrency: Design and implement highly concurrent multithreaded backend services for parallel processing.
- Database & Storage Optimization: Improve performance of SQL (PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra DynamoDB Redis MongoDB) solutions.
- Security & Compliance: Implement API security authentication authorization and ensure compliance with SOC2 ISO 27001 PCI DSS.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Mentorship & Code Reviews: Guide engineers in best practices for platform engineering microservices and distributed systems.
- CrossTeam Collaboration: Work with cloud engineering security and product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
Key Qualifications:
- 812 years of experience in backend platform engineering distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong programming expertise in Go Java or Python with a focus on multithreading and concurrency.
- Expertise in Kubernetes service meshes (Istio Linkerd) and cloud infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of gRPC REST APIs GraphQL and API performance tuning.
- Handson experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation (Terraform Pulumi).
- Proven ability to manage production incidents and other operatonal excellence practices.
- Excellent debugging and problemsolving skills in complex distributed environments.
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
