Staff Backend Engineer

Benefits You’ll Love

• Competitive annual salary ($200,000 - $250,000 per year)
• Equity
• Comprehensive medical coverage (choice of Silver, Gold, or Platinum plans)
• 100% of employee premiums covered (varies by plan)
• 50% of premiums covered for spouses and dependents (varies by plan)
• Full dental insurance for employees and dependents
• Full vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Unlimited PTO (subject to coordination and approval from your team)
• Free lunch on in-person days
• Office coffee, snacks, and regular food runs
• 401(k) retirement plan

Become a Key Player as a Staff Backend Engineer

You will help define and scale core backend architecture for a real-time telemetry platform that ingests and serves high-frequency data, delivering reliability and observability for engineering teams. You’ll work closely with frontend, design, and data stakeholders to own features end-to-end and improve system performance and scalability. This role is Hybrid — in-person collaboration twice weekly (Mondays and Thursdays) with a full-team week every two months.

Here’s How You’ll Make an Impact on the Team

• Design, build, and operate backend systems that process and store large volumes of real-time telemetry data
• Own features end-to-end from design through post-launch improvements
• Collaborate with Frontend, Design, and Data teams to ensure solutions address real customer problems
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Contribute to system evolution, including service migrations, caching strategies, and storage/indexing improvements
• Participate in on-call rotations and debug live incidents
• Improve observability and monitoring practices
• Raise engineering quality through code reviews, shared patterns, and mentorship

Here’s What You’ll Need to Be Successful in This Role

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline
• 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure roles
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (state, fault tolerance, recovery)
• Production-first mindset with strong debugging skills
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python and strong Linux/networking fundamentals
• Deep knowledge of SQL and operational database experience (indexing, migrations, tuning)
• Experience building and scaling APIs (REST, gRPC/Protobuf)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo CD, and related infrastructure tools
• Eligibility to work as a U.S. Person in compliance with ITAR/EAR (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual)

Here’s What Else Might Help You Out

• Experience with streaming or time-series systems (Kafka, Flink, TimescaleDB, etc.)
• Experience with performance tuning and profiling at query or service layers
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana)
• Background in hardware or telemetry-heavy environments

Pay Range

$200,000 - $250,000/year

Ready to Make Your Mark?

This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.

Pay: $200,000.00 - $250,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Marina del Rey, CA 90292