What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Backend position at Faros?
Mission
At Faros AI, 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 AI 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.
Responsibilities
Baseline Requirements
Our team meets in-person several days a week in San Mateo, CA.
Compensation Range: $200K - $230K
At Faros AI, 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 AI 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.
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
- 5–8 years with ownership of critical components or services
- 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
- Hands-on experience with one of more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus)
- Comfortable working with distributed international teams
- English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.
- Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent real-world experience.
- 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)
Our team meets in-person several days a week in San Mateo, CA.
Compensation Range: $200K - $230K
Salary : $200,000 - $230,000