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$163,000 – $263,670
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What this role is
A senior backend engineer role focused on building and operating the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to SDKs at scale. This suits experienced production engineers with a track record in high-throughput systems who want ownership of critical infrastructure.
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What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years backend engineering with significant work on distributed or high-throughput systems
- Track record designing, building, and operating reliable, low-latency services
- Production ownership experience including on-call rotation
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, or Python)
- Comfortable working on a cloud platform (AWS or equivalent)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Hands-on with observability tooling like Datadog, Prometheus, or New Relic
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (concurrency, partitioning, retries, idempotency, backpressure, failure handling)
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code and collaborate on technical design