Staff Backend Engineer

Join our team as a Staff Backend Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in defining core architecture and scaling our real-time telemetry platform. You'll work on complex backend systems, optimize for performance and reliability, and collaborate with various teams to solve real customer problems. With a focus on data infrastructure, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to system evolution and raise the bar through code reviews and mentorship. Enjoy benefits such as free lunch, top-tier health insurance, and unlimited PTO.

• Design, build, and operate backend systems that process and store large volumes of real-time telemetry data.
• Collaborate with Frontend, Design, and Data teams to ensure features solve real customer problems and optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations, debugging live issues, and improving observability while raising the bar through code reviews, shared patterns, and mentorship.
• Deep knowledge of SQL and operational database experience (indexing, migrations, tuning)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo CD, and other modern infrastructure tools
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python, and strong Linux/networking fundamentals
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals—state, fault tolerance, recovery
• Strong debugging skills and a production-first mindset
• 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure roles
• Experience building and scaling APIs (REST, gRPC/Protobuf)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline
• Experience with streaming or time-series data systems (Kafka, Flink, TimescaleDB, etc.)
• Experience with performance tuning and profiling at query or service layers
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana)
• Background in hardware or telemetry-heavy environments