Staff Backend Engineer

• Establish significant scope: Collaborate with the PMs, engineers and leads to determine the biggest product needs to focus on now
• Operate with technical autonomy: You have considerable leeway to suggest how to address a given focus area, including bringing in new technical dependencies or standards where it’s the best choice
• Collaborate, execute, deliver: This is the core of the building loop. We aim to optimize for both speed and quality, despite it being decidedly non-obvious how to manage that tradeoff exceptionally well
• Reflect and drive improvements: Especially as a Staff Engineer, advocate for and realize system improvements, both related to and independent of key features

• Excellent programming skills and experience in a statically typed backend programming language, preferably Go, Kotlin, Java or Rust
• Experience developing and deploying cloud-based services to at least hundreds of qps (preferably more)
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Hands-on experience with caching (Redis or Memcached), pubsub/queues, data pipelines (Flink, Beam), and Cloud storage
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, can collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineer with ease, trusted and well-regarded teammate

• Experience with analytics or timeseries databases (ClickHouse, Timescale, InfluxDB)
• Experience with OpenTelemetry
• Experience with C++

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