Staff Platform EngineerYour Role at Pura:We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Platform Team) to join our team and be a technical leader in building and scaling Pura's backend systems. As a staff engineer, you'll drive technical excellence across multiple teams, mentor other engineers, and build reliable services used by millions of customers. You'll collaborate with technical and business stakeholders across the organization to deliver robust solutions that directly impact our customers.
This role is ideal for a technically skilled engineer who thrives in a dynamic environment, communicates effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and is eager to make a significant impact on our growing business.
*Open to remote/hybrid candidates
Required Qualifications:- 10+ years in backend engineering with demonstrated technical leadership experience
- Ability to make pragmatic decisions about technical direction based on the needs of the business
- Deep experience with cloud platforms and services (We use AWS), including architecture, deployment, and optimization
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (We use Docker and Kubernetes)
- Deep expertise in various database technologies (We use Postgres,Redis, and DynamoDB)
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance optimization at scale
- Ability to effectively communicate complex technical details to stakeholders of varying technical backgrounds
- Strong mentorship skills and ability to elevate the engineering team
- Experience with CI/CD practices and infrastructure as code (We use GitHub and Terraform)
Nice to have:
- Strong experience with Golang, Javascript, Typescript.
- Deep experience building and operating high-scale distributed systems
- Experience with IoT systems or connected devices
- Experience with distributed actor-based systems and/or libraries (dapr, akka, etc)
- Experience with real-time data processing
