Software Engineering Technical Leader – Backend Services

Jobtailor; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced backend senior engineer to lead architecture for telemetry processing at scale. The role focuses on building high-performance services, scalable policy rendering, and low-latency APIs in a distributed environment.

Candidates should have strong expertise in Go/C++/Java, leadership, and experience with large-scale event processing. Cloud APIs across AWS/Azure/GCP and Kubernetes are valued skills.

Qualifikationen

• 9+ years of software systems experience across Go, C++, or Java.
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment.
• Agile experience and practices.
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures.
• Security architecture and database design proficiency.

Aufgaben

• Provide technical leadership and architect backend services processing telemetry at scale from customer data sources.
• Render scalable policies across many enforcement points in changing environments.
• Implement low-latency API endpoints handling large data volumes.
• Operate in complex distributed systems with unique failure modes.

Kenntnisse

Go

C++

Java

Technical leadership

Agile

Cloud APIs (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

• Provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services that collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
• React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
• Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
• Be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments

Requirements

• At least 9+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java.
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
• Agile experience
• Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of related experience, Master's with 9+ years, PhD with 4+ years, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
• Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
• Schema/Data modeling design experience
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
• Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
• Experience working with security architecture and database design
• Kubernetes experience
• Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in backend services architecture, large-scale event processing, and performance engineering, with a strong foundation in algorithms and security architecture. Proven ability to lead technical teams and implement scalable solutions in complex distributed systems.