Staff Software Engineer, Core Services

Location: United States (Remote), Canada (Remote)

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Collaborate with engineers to architect and implement high-performance services that are durable and reliable
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and production on-call rotation
• Work together with the team to resolve production issues and ensure system scalability
• Conduct data analysis, performance monitoring, and system optimization through benchmarking/profiling.
• Work independently to drive experiments and solutions for business needs
• Design synchronous and asynchronous APIs for communicating between services in a large distributed system
• Design schemas for relational and non-relational databases

• 8+ years of experience working as a software engineer
• Experience operating reliable production systems at scale
• Experience writing high-performance code in a compiled language such as Rust, C/C++, or Golang
• Ability to reason about how data flows through distributed systems
• Experience using LLM-powered coding tools, such as Claude, to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance engineering workflows. 
• Bias towards automating the boring stuff

• Experience with any of Redis, Kafka, Postgres, ClickHouse, gRPC
• Experience profiling applications to improve performance in terms of time/CPU/memory
• Experience debugging issues in distributed systems