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Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA Direct Hire Other $200,000 - $260,000

Job Summary

Seeking a Backend Engineer with 3+ years of experience to own critical guardrails and observability tooling. The role involves building for massive scale and engaging directly with developers at large enterprise customers to solve technical challenges.

Essential Functions

  • Build and scale core product infrastructure for 1B+ monthly requests with world-class performance and reliability
  • Own backend code for guardrails and logging to ensure all calls are traceable and errors are properly surfaced
  • Enhance observability stack to handle high-volume traffic with minimal latency
  • Develop in Python and/or Rust to build CPU-level guardrails against common attacks
  • Engage directly with developers at large enterprise customers several times per week to solve their challenges

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of backend software engineering experience
  • Experience building scalable backend systems
  • Ability to work with high-volume traffic and performance requirements
  • Comfortable engaging directly with enterprise customers

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience at a high-growth startup
  • Background working with large-scale distributed systems

Technical Skills

  • Python
  • Rust
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • Prometheus
  • OpenTelemetry
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Education & Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $200,000 - $260,000

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