Senior Backend Engineer

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$120K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend software development experience
  • Proficiency in Rust, C/C++, GO, or Swift
  • Familiarity with databases and distributed systems
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, low-process environment
  • Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies

Responsibilities

  • Develop high-quality backend products with a focus on user experience
  • Collaborate with team members to solve complex problems
  • Implement and optimize database systems and data pipelines
  • Manage deployments and cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code
  • Ensure security and performance in the backend development process

Benefits

  • Impactful work with high ownership
  • Opportunity to tackle ambitious product challenges
  • Collaborative and fast-paced team culture
  • Support for professional development and personal growth
  • Hybrid working model with in-person collaboration in San Francisco
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team to create high quality products with great UX in record time. A strong candidate will have:
  • Specific familiarity in one or more systems languages like Rust, C/C++, GO, and/or Swift.
  • General familiarity with databases, database internals, distributed systems, data pipelines/warehouses.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced and low process environment.
  • A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software development, with an emphasis on backend technologies.


Our Tech Stack

Talented engineers can pick up new languages and frameworks quickly. Here's what our tech stack looks like today, but if you come with a better way of doing things we're flexible and committed to building the best tools for our customers no matter what!
  • We use Rust throughout the backend, giving us extremely fast performance with strong security guarantees.
  • Our frontend is written using Svelte and TypeScript.
  • Our query system leverages highly burstable compute provided by serverless components like Amazon Lambdas.
  • We use S3 to store logs at scale and MySQL to store metadata.
  • Our log ingestion pipeline runs in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
  • We use infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi to manage our deployments and cloud infrastructure.


Why you'll love working here
  • Impact & ownership: Join a small, high-trust team where your work directly impacts our users.
  • Ambitious product: We solve hard problems with massive scale log search, threat hunting, and observability for cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Fast-paced team & culture: We're lean, collaborative and high-velocity.
  • Growth & autonomy: We trust you to take major ownership, give you the space to grow, and we'll support your professional development.


Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, commuter). Hybrid-friendly with regular in-person collaboration in San Francisco.

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