Software Engineer - Backend

Department: Product

Location: San Mateo

Compensation: $200K – $230K

Employment Type: Contract

Mission

At Faros, we are reshaping the way engineering organizations operate, with an engineering intelligence platform that provides visibility and context across the organization's software delivery systems. This deep operational context supports engineering leaders today, and is increasingly essential as AI agents begin to operate within real software delivery environments. Faros is laying the foundation for how humans and AI will build software together in the years ahead.

About the Role

We’re looking for software engineers who want to build the future of engineering operations with us. You will spend a significant portion of your time writing code, building core systems, and solving our most complex technical challenges.

What we value

• Living by our values over avoiding conflict. We favor transparency and honest debate because strong decisions depend on saying the hard things out loud.

• Transformation over predictability. We dedicate our efforts to work that produces monumental outcomes for our customers, even if it means trading short-term predictability for long-term impact.

• Intensity over comfort. We move with urgency and focus, especially when the work is messy or unstructured.

• Craftsmanship over throughput. We take pride in how things are built. Quality, coherence, and care matter. We would rather ship fewer things done right than many things done carelessly.

• Ownership over process. We act like founders. If we see something broken, we fix it. We don’t wait for permission, committees, or perfect instructions. Process exists to help us move faster, not to give us an excuse to stand still.
  

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data infrastructure that ingests and transforms engineering data at scale

• Design and implement backend services/APIs balancing speed, flexibility, security, and scalability

• Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to design data products and platform features

Baseline Requirements

Experience

• 5–8+ years with ownership of critical components or services

Technical Stack

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript + Node.js and/or Python

• Experience designing/consuming REST/GraphQL APIs

• Experience with building & productionizing web services, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration frameworks

• Strong database fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL)

• CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)

• Experience running production workloads including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, traces, oncall

• Security fundamentals

Cloud

• Hands-on experience with one of more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus)

Collaboration & Communication

• Comfortable working with distributed international teams

• English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.

Education

• Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent real-world experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with building & integrating with SaaS platforms

• Experience with engineering analytics or developer-productivity tooling

• Experience with IaC, containers, serverless, queues/event-driven architectures

• Experience with security practices (authN/authZ, secrets management)

• Familiarity with engineering metrics (DORA, code quality, delivery metrics)

• Hands-on experience using coding agents (AI-assisted development)

Work Details

Our team meets in-person several days a week in San Mateo, CA.