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Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus)

🕒 7 days ago
📍 Worldwide - Remote💰 $150k - $200k / year🎸 Senior🔎 Backend Engineer📢 🇬🇧 English Required💼 Full-Time
GolangNode.jsAPI DevelopmentSRE Practices

📜 Description

  • Design, develop, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services, with reliability, latency, and cost as first-class design constraints.
  • Define and own SLIs and SLOs for Core API services, and use error budgets to make concrete tradeoffs between shipping velocity and stability.
  • Build and maintain observability with meaningful metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerts that focus on user-visible symptoms.
  • Participate in a shared on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and lead blameless postmortems.
  • Drive down operational toil by automating recurring manual work and addressing incident action items.
  • Conduct capacity planning, load testing, and performance tuning to ensure the platform scales ahead of demand.

🛠️ Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in backend development, including operating built systems in production.
  • Formal SRE practice experience — error budget policies, capacity models, production readiness reviews.
  • Strong experience in GoLang and/or Node.js.
  • Experience with building and optimizing APIs and microservices architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
  • Fluency with observability tooling such as Datadog.

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