Principal Backend Engineer

Job is Expired
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Tue, Aug 05, 2025

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer, Experimentation Platform.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define and evolve the API platform architecture for user data, ensuring scalability, security, and extensibility
  • Lead the design of public and internal API contracts, including governance standards
  • Architect API gateways and service meshes for unified access to distributed systems while maintaining performance and reliability
Required Qualifications
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on scalable APIs and distributed backend systems
  • 3+ years of experience leading platform or API architecture in cloud environments
  • Expertise in REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and API versioning and authentication
  • Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (Java, Go, Python, Scala)
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines

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