Senior Software Engineer - Backend Platform

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve distributed systems in Go to handle billions of daily events and messages and store and index petabytes of data
• Lead architectural decisions around performance, reliability, and real-time event processing
• Improve service-to-service communication through better APIs, messaging systems, and event-driven patterns
• Work across teams to uncover bottlenecks and system issues, and lead initiatives to resolve them for a smoother customer experience
• Tackle high-throughput challenges across data pipelines, queues, and scheduling infrastructure
• Able to debug production systems at scale using effective instrumentation, and resolve issues quickly and confidently
• Participate in an on-call rotation as required, supporting the reliability of the systems you build
• Share knowledge and raise the bar through sharing your progress publicly with short videos, thoughtful writing, and mentorship
• Leverage AI tools to prototype, move faster, and make better decisions

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