Senior Staff Engineer (Backend) Core Services Eng

What you'll do

• Shape the Core Services multi-year technical roadmap, system abstractions, and architectural vision.
• Design and deliver highly available distributed systems, including microservices, load testing, observability, and zero-downtime rollouts.
• Set organization-wide architectural guidelines, improve engineering culture, and develop engineering talent.

What they ask for

• 10+ years of industry experience architecting, building, and operating high-throughput backend services and production distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Expertise in distributed system design, multi-tenant architectures, and high-concurrency paradigms; experience applying caching, event-driven patterns, database optimization, and high-availability design.
• Industry experience with modern backend programming languages, asynchronous message platforms, gRPC/REST APIs, and enterprise cloud/orchestration infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with zero-downtime platform migrations, multi-region active-active deployments, global disaster recovery, or foundational core platforms.

Pay

USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year (base salary; San Francisco, CA); USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year (base salary; Sunnyvale, CA)

Tools

Go, Java, C++, Rust, Python, Kafka, gRPC, REST