Staff Backend Engineer

Job Summary

Building and maintaining backend services for on-premises deployments, the full-time Staff Backend Engineer will work remotely on a Python-based microservices platform, ensuring operational correctness and upgrade safety for enterprise customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services in Python, focusing on operational correctness and upgrade safety
• Own the deployment lifecycle, including building and maintaining Docker images across various customer infrastructure configurations
• Build and evolve REST and gRPC APIs while maintaining strict backwards-compatibility contracts

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience with Python in a production microservices environment
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including writing Helm charts
• Strong PostgreSQL skills, including schema design and writing zero-downtime migration scripts
• Experience building and maintaining gRPC and REST APIs with explicit versioning strategies
• Solid understanding of observability, including structured logging and distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry