Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

We're looking for a Senior Production Software Engineer to build, scale, and maintain critical infrastructure and backend systems that power high-growth products. This role requires a strong generalist engineer who is comfortable working across the stack, owning services end-to-end, and contributing to architecture, platform, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable production systems and core infrastructure.
• Develop robust backend services, APIs, and internal platforms using Python.
• Drive reliability, observability, performance, and operational improvements across the platform.
• Work across multiple areas of the system, including application services, infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer tooling.
• Lead architectural decisions and contribute to long-term platform strategy.
• Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to deliver highly available systems.

Requirements

• 5 years of software engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong Python development experience with a track record of building and operating scalable systems.
• Experience designing and implementing infrastructure, platform, or backend systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud architectures, networking, and system design principles.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production issues and improve system reliability.

Preferred

• Experience building internal developer platforms, deployment systems, or operational tooling.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and observability frameworks.
• Exposure to data infrastructure, machine learning platforms, or high-performance computing environments.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments with broad ownership across the engineering stack.

'This is an opportunity for an engineer who enjoys tackling diverse technical challenges, building foundational infrastructure, and having a broad impact across an organization's technology ecosystem.