Backend Engineer (Remote)

As part of our team, you’ll play a critical role in improving customer experiences by scaling our services and contributing to our culture of innovation and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with our backend, infrastructure, and application engineers, as well as our outstanding customer support team to deliver an unmatched customer experience.

What you’ll do:

Contribute to our collection of highly-scalable services (some stateless, some stateful). Our services run in multiple regions, are engineered to support spiky but predictable workloads, and are deployed via multi-stage rollouts to build confidence in the correctness and efficiency of changes.

• By 30 Days:
  • Use your background to understand and improve existing services under the supervision of existing team members
  • Analyze the cost models of our services and suggest areas of and strategies for new operational efficiencies
• By 90 Days:
  • Lead the development of new services such as (1) a k8s operator to control a service’s lifecycle or (2) a cloud storage caching layer
  • Play a key role in technology evaluations and architecture evolution discussions
  • Harden and productize internally or externally developed libraries and services.
• By 1 Year:
  • Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our user-facing application, and drive improvements of scalability without introducing unnecessary friction

Requirements:

Hard Skills:

• Proficiency with k8s and Go, including a strong understanding of garbage collection and profiling. Experience with Cgo is a bonus.
• Familiarity with our tech stack (or equivalents): GCP/GKE, Linux, Docker, Ruby/Rails, Redis, ffmpeg
• Experience in a SaaS or PaaS environment at our scale (currently 100s of millions of async jobs per week). Experience with video streaming at scale is a bonus.

Soft Skills:

• Curiosity-driven and pragmatic with a focus on delivering results
• A generalist mindset with the ability to dive deep into a wide range of challenges
• Resilience, attention to detail, and an ability to grind through complex problems
• Openness to disagreement and commitment to decisions once made
• Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to explain complex insights in an accessible manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Independence in managing one’s workload and priorities

What You'll Get:

• The opportunity to shape the foundational software services of a growing company
• A role that balances innovation and incremental improvement
• A dynamic and collaborative engineering team
• Competitive benefits and compensation including stock options
• A supportive environment that encourages innovation and personal growth

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