Backend Engineer – Real-Time Distributed Systems

Integrate; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrate, based in Seattle, is hiring a Backend Engineer to join a small, high-ownership team building the infrastructure layer of its real-time platform. You’ll scale distributed services using Go and Python, focusing on data federation, gRPC interfaces, REST/JSON APIs, and robust cloud infrastructure.

You’ll work on performance profiling, architecture evolution, and collaboration with platform engineers to push a complex program into production with high reliability and velocity.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a focus on distributed or high‑availability systems.
• Production experience in Go; Python for tooling or data workflows
• Familiarity with gRPC and REST/JSON API design at scale
• Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data stores in production
• Kubernetes in real environments—deployment, scaling, troubleshooting
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and IaC tooling (Terraform)
• Track record on monolith‑to‑microservice transitions, cloud migrations, data pipelines
• Strong debugging instincts and performance optimization experience

Responsibilities

• Design and scale distributed backend systems handling high-throughput, real‑time data across a complex dependency graph
• Own performance profiling and debugging across Go and Rust services — identify bottlenecks and ship fixes
• Contribute to data federation architecture, including S3 integration, graduation pipelines, and downstream data services
• Build and evolve gRPC service interfaces and REST/JSON APIs consumed across internal and external surfaces
• Work across SQL and NoSQL data stores — schema design, query optimization, and durability patterns
• Drive infrastructure decisions in collaboration with platform engineers and technical leads
• Instrument, observe, and debug production systems — on‑call, root cause analysis, and incident follow‑through

Skills

Go

Python

gRPC

REST/JSON API

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Terraform

Distributed systems

Tools

GraphQL

Job description

Integrate, based in Seattle, is hiring a Backend Engineer to join a small, high-ownership team building the infrastructure layer of its real-time platform. You’ll scale distributed services using Go and Python, focusing on data federation, gRPC interfaces, REST/JSON APIs, and robust cloud infrastructure.

You’ll work on performance profiling, architecture evolution, and collaboration with platform engineers to push a complex program into production with high reliability and velocity.