Staff Backend Engineer

Doss

• $150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in building large scale ETL systems
  • Expertise with databases like Postgres, Elasticsearch, and DuckDB
  • Proficiency in using cloud services for web application deployment
  • Experience designing complex graph-based architectures
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team-focused environment

Responsibilities

  • Design the EAV data model and schema-as-code platform for customer instances
  • Build a version-control and migration engine for schema and data changes
  • Engineer AI-assisted tooling for schema and workflow validation
  • Scale a data warehouse for analytics and automation workloads
  • Create declarative APIs and SDKs for operational teams
  • Deliver end-to-end observability and AI-native search functions
  • Mentor team members and enhance engineering culture

Benefits

  • 100% coverage for premium medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with immediate eligibility
  • In-office lunches and dinners provided
  • Flexible/unlimited paid time off
  • Stipends for commuting and equipment needs
  • Wellness and fitness program support
  • Generous parental leave and relocation assistance
Full Job Description
What You'll do
  • Design the core EAV data model & schema-as-code platform that powers every customer's instance, balancing extreme flexibility with transactional integrity.
  • Build a Git-style version-control + migration engine capable of rolling forward/back complex schema and data changes on live production tenants in enterprise settings.
  • Engineer AI-assisted tooling that uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply new customer schemas and workflow definitions.
  • Scale our white-labeled data warehouse (BigQuery/Snowflake-like) for high-volume, low-latency analytics and automation workloads.
  • Create Terraform-like declarative APIs & SDKs so ops teams can treat business processes as code while you ensure security, tenancy, and performance.
  • Deliver end-to-end observability & search across supply-chain, finance, and ops data-surfacing business logic in plain language through AI-native search.
  • Build Enterprise guard rails into a composable system to proactively detect anomalous behavior or risky emergent patterns
  • Mentor and shape engineering culture, partnering with product and design to turn unsexy back-office pain into elegant, resilient systems loved by operators.


What We're Looking For

Experience
  • Expertise building large scale ETL on databases like Postgres, Elasticsearch, DuckDB, Memgraph (Graph DB), etc
  • Using cloud services to build + deploy reliable web applications
  • Working in abstractions to build complex graph-based architectures that scale

Qualities
  • Team player: you bring positivity, openness, and curiosity to the team every day.
  • Growth mindset: everything is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself, the team, and the company.
  • Craftsmanship: you care about making something of quality.
  • Pragmatic: you make the right decision based on circumstance, not theory.
  • Low Ego: you work best in collaborative environments where everyone supports the team.


What You'll Get
  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity
  • 100% Coverage for individuals Premium medical, dental & vision coverage
  • 401(k), immediate eligibility
  • Lunch in-office 5 days/week (and dinner when needed)
  • Flexible/unlimited PTO
  • Commuter (BART/MUNI/CalTrain) and equipment stipends
  • Wellness & Fitness stipend
  • Generous parental leave
  • Relocation assistance available
  • In-office culture in San Francisco

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