Senior Backend Engineer – Real-Time APIs & SRE

Jobgether; Mexico; On-site; PHP 9,357,000 - 12,477,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether seeks a Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus) to design, develop, and operate high‑scale backend services for real‑time data and web APIs. You will own reliability metrics, observability, and incident response in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Candidates should have 5+ years backend experience, strong Go and/or Node.js skills, and experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC. Excellent English communication is essential for cross‑functional collaboration across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience including production systems you helped build.
• Strong hands-on experience with Go and/or Node.js, with willingness to learn the other technology.
• Experience running production workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or comparable containerization.
• Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Observability platforms like Datadog, with instrumentation, monitoring, logging, tracing and dashboards.
• Strong SQL skills with databases like DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
• Experience in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident analysis.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance engineering.
• Excellent English communication in a remote-first environment.
• Ability to work independently and mentor others.
• Degree welcome; equivalent professional experience valued.
• Experience with analytics platforms like ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or Databricks is a plus.
• Performance profiling and cost optimization for high-throughput cloud workloads is a plus.
• Open-source contributions and async collaboration across international teams are beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize highly performant backend services for real‑time data processing and web APIs.
• Define and own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for core API services; use reliability data to guide decisions.
• Build and maintain observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
• Participate in an equitable on‑call rotation; respond to production incidents and lead post‑incident reviews.
• Automate operational processes to reduce toil and prevent recurring failures.
• Conduct capacity planning, load testing, performance analysis, and tuning for scalable systems.
• Investigate production issues, run experiments, and translate findings into improvements.
• Integrate backend components with other services; collaborate across teams to maintain performance and reliability.
• Contribute to a data‑driven, reliability‑focused culture and share best practices.
• Mentor engineers and support growth of technical skills and operational excellence.

Skills

Go

Node.js

SQL

Distributed systems

English communication

Mentoring

On-call rotations

Cost optimization

Cloud skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Datadog

ClickHouse

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Jobgether seeks a Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus) to design, develop, and operate high‑scale backend services for real‑time data and web APIs. You will own reliability metrics, observability, and incident response in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Candidates should have 5+ years backend experience, strong Go and/or Node.js skills, and experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC. Excellent English communication is essential for cross‑functional collaboration across