Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

Skills

About the Role

You will build and operate the cohesive backend platform that all services run on, designing shared frameworks, libraries, and service templates that let product engineers ship faster. You'll introduce modern patterns like asyncio and streaming, build in observability and testing, and collaborate with model infrastructure and developer experience teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms
• Proficiency in Python or similar languages and backend fundamentals
• Experience with web frameworks and service architectures (Flask/FastAPI, microservices)
• Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL and vector databases
• Track record of high-quality, well-tested code
• Strong problem-solving skills and passion for developer experience
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal backend frameworks and libraries for API routing, service lifecycle, caching, messaging and error handling
• Create and improve APIs, service templates, and versioned interfaces
• Introduce modern backend patterns like asyncio and streaming data processing
• Design domain-specific abstractions for authorization, streaming, data governance and event processing
• Embed reliability and observability through tracing, metrics, and automated tests
• Collaborate with Model Infrastructure on GenAI-native challenges
• Collaborate with Developer Experience and Infrastructure teams on CI/CD and deployment integration
• Work with product engineering teams to gather feedback and evangelize best practices

Benefits

• Equity