Who you are

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
• At least 7, preferably 10+ years of building and operating large-scale production distributed systems where latency, correctness, and reliability (99.99% uptime) are non-negotiable
• Deep backend systems experience in one or more modern server environments (e.g., Java, Go, Rust, Python, Node.js, etc.), with the ability to ramp and adapt quickly in new stacks
• Expertise with distributed systems, concurrency, scaling, and debugging multi-layer systems
• Strong operational judgment: you define SLIs/SLOs, build observability, and improve systems via incidents and feedback loops, not heroics
• Staff behaviors: you lead multi-team initiatives, write decision-quality design docs, influence architecture beyond your immediate team, and communicate across the organization.
• Ability to make decisions with incomplete information, understand and communicate one-way vs. two-way doors, and move with urgency while keeping critical code operational
• Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact

What the job involves

• Reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering
• Collaborate with exceptional engineers on building systems and services for the world's largest companies. This platform powers millions of production websites and supports massive scale, including over 1% of global Internet traffic and more than 10 billion monthly visits
• Lead architecture for distributed services at scale that synchronize shared state across clients, including clear correctness guarantees (eg: ordering, idempotency, convergence). These services require low latency and high availability, with SLO of 99.99% uptime
• Define concurrency and conflict-resolution semantics for concurrent changes, including trade-offs and constraints
• Design for failure: retries, partial outages, reconnection, and safe recovery paths, with explicit degradation behavior
• Own operational excellence: define SLIs/SLOs, instrument tracing/metrics/logging, and drive reliability improvements through incident learning
• Drive cross-team technical alignment via design docs and decision records; unblock execution across org boundaries
• Raise the bar through design and code reviews, mentoring, and pragmatic standardization that increases leverage
• Deliver maintainable, tested, performant systems and evolve them with a “crawl, walk, run” plan
• Use modern tooling (including AI-assisted coding, debugging and code review) to improve developer velocity and reduce time-to-diagnosis in production
• Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams

The application process

• Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled

Benefits

• Modern & inclusive healthcare coverage
• 401K and financial planning
• Flexible paid time off
• Annual retreat and offsites
• WFH Office setup budget
• Health and wellness stipend
• Remote work reimbursements for phone & wifi
• Webflow subscription discount
• Remote-first flexibility