Backend Engineer III - Distributed Systems & Microservices

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a backend engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable services including identity, graph, and persistence components. You will collaborate across teams to translate product requirements into robust solutions and constantly evaluate trade-offs for innovative products.

You will test, debug, and advocate best practices for availability, scalability, and cost management while participating in incident or hotfix investigations as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services or distributed systems.
• Ability to independently implement medium-sized features over a few weeks.
• Experience ensuring highly available systems at scale.
• BS/BA degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services, including user identity services, friend graph, and core persistence layer
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver solutions for innovative products
• Evaluate, test, and debug work to ensure high quality
• Advocate for and apply best practices for availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
• Participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution as needed

Skills

Backend Services Development

Distributed Systems Experience

Cloud Computing Proficiency

Microservices Architecture

Incident Resolution Participation

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Google Cloud Services

AWS Services

Kubernetes

NoSQL Solutions

Memcache

Redis

System Design

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a backend engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable services including identity, graph, and persistence components. You will collaborate across teams to translate product requirements into robust solutions and constantly evaluate trade-offs for innovative products.

You will test, debug, and advocate best practices for availability, scalability, and cost management while participating in incident or hotfix investigations as needed.