Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

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Job Summary

We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure in the United States. As a Senior Software Engineer in Backend Infrastructure, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining highly scalable, reliable backend systems that support core product capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain resilient backend services handling critical user-facing functionality such as identity, media, and communication systems.
• Build and maintain reusable libraries, frameworks, and tooling for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication.
• Partner with product and platform teams to design APIs and distributed system patterns that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Anticipate scaling and performance challenges, implement capacity planning, and proactively resolve infrastructure issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure services meet defined SLAs and respond to production incidents.
• Enable other engineering teams by providing frameworks, patterns, and tools that accelerate development while maintaining consistency and service health.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles, with exposure to high-scale production environments.
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Go, Python, or PHP for building APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and Linux-based infrastructure.
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting services that handle critical, high-traffic applications.
• Solid understanding of databases, caching, and messaging systems (e.g., DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, Kafka).
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams, balancing product velocity with long-term infrastructure reliability.
• Experience building platforms or frameworks that enable other engineering teams to work efficiently and consistently.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, with ranges based on location and experience.
• Remote-first work environment with flexibility across U.S. locations.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact backend systems supporting millions of users.
• Collaborative, mission-driven engineering team.