Staff Software Engineer, Backend Job at Gamma (San Francisco)

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Gamma

Location:
United States , San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

230000.00 - 310000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

You'll lead critical backend initiatives as Gamma scales from millions to hundreds of millions of users. This means architecting systems that never sleep, designing data models that support explosive growth, and solving the hardest scaling challenges we face. You'll have significant ownership over our backend architecture and infrastructure, working across the stack to ensure Gamma stays fast and reliable at massive scale. As a Staff Engineer, you'll balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You'll ship to production daily, architect solutions to overcome bottlenecks, and mentor engineers while setting the standard for backend excellence. You'll work closely with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams to build systems that handle our next order of magnitude of growth.

Job Responsibility:

Build APIs that power our expanding platform and design innovative data models that support our growing user base
Architect and lead scaling initiatives to handle our next order of magnitude of growth
Design and implement our tech stack including Kafka pipelines and real-time AI streaming systems
Lead performance optimization efforts and architect solutions to overcome bottlenecks
Implement live subscription updates as data changes using event streaming systems
Mentor engineers while collaborating across teams to create exceptional developer and user experiences

Requirements:

8+ years of experience as a software engineer with deep expertise in building large-scale production systems
Deep and comprehensive understanding of large relational databases, service-oriented architectures, and HTTP & REST protocols
Proven track record writing and maintaining highly-available web APIs
Extensive experience with event streaming systems like Redis Pubsub or Apache Kafka
Leadership experience in large, complex production-scale codebases
Passion for building APIs, scaling complex systems, and creating excellent web applications
Advanced experience with AI prompting and large language models
Experience programming with TypeScript, Prisma, and Apollo GraphQL
Experience with Terraform and AWS Services

Nice to have:

Computer science degree or related field

What we offer:

competitive equity

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 20, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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