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SeniorFull-timeRustNode.jsAWSGCPKubernetesCI/CDAIAPIML
Salary Range
$132,600 - $179,400 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve the backend foundations of business-critical products used at scale. This role focuses on owning core backend services and setting long-term architectural direction.
Key Responsibilities
- →Design and implement backend platforms that support high-throughput, low-latency applications
- →Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, availability, security, and cost
- →Own backend services end-to-end—from initial design to deployment and iteration in production
- →Review designs and code with a focus on long-term maintainability and correctness
- →Establish and evolve standards for code quality, testing, security, and documentation
- →Instrument services with metrics, logs, and alerts to enable proactive monitoring
- →Work closely with product managers to shape technical solutions
Requirements
- ✓5–8+ years of professional backend engineering experience in production environments
- ✓Proven track record of designing and running distributed systems at scale
- ✓Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and modern backend frameworks
- ✓Deep understanding of system design concepts: concurrency, fault tolerance, consistency, and scalability
- ✓Solid experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, schema design, and performance tuning
- ✓Hands-on exposure to cloud-native architectures on AWS, GCP, or similar platforms
- ✓Experience building RESTful and asynchronous/event-driven APIs
Benefits
- ★Summary Bullets
- ★Design backend platforms for high-throughput applications
- ★Own backend services end-to-end
- ★Review designs and code for maintainability
- ★Establish engineering standards
- ★Monitor services with metrics and alerts
- ★Collaborate with product managers
- ★Build RESTful and event-driven APIs
- ★Requirement Bullets
- ★5–8+ years backend engineering experience
- ★Distributed systems design experience
- ★Node.js expertise
- ★System design concepts knowledge
- ★SQL/NoSQL database experience
- ★Cloud architecture experience
- ★API development experience
- ★Benefit Bullets
