Backend Software Engineer – Python/Django

Foss United; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Plane in San Francisco seeks a Backend Software Engineer (Python) to own backend surfaces end to end, from API contracts to migrations, working on Django-based services behind projects, cycles, and permissions.

You will collaborate with engineers in San Francisco and Hyderabad, optimize queries, instrument deployments, and contribute to a platform that runs in cloud and self-hosted environments.

Qualifications

• Shipped Python to production and can explain a key design decision.
• Experience with Django or a comparable framework.
• Comfort with SQL; read queries, add indexes, explain impact.
• Experience writing async Python in production traffic.
• Debugged production incidents and learned from them.
• Clear written communication in public issues and internal threads.

Responsibilities

• Own backend surfaces end to end, from API contract and data model through migration and rollout, starting with scoped ones and taking on larger ones as you learn the system.
• Extend the real-time sync path alongside the engineers who designed it: event streams, change data capture, and the caching in front of them.
• Measure and improve query performance as workspaces grow. Query plans, indexes, and connection pooling are yours to read and fix.
• Instrument what you ship so that a degradation shows up in our dashboards before a customer reports it, and take your turn responding when it fires.
• Work daily with product and frontend engineers across San Francisco and Hyderabad, and with community members whose issue reports become your test cases.
• Debug what you cannot reproduce, on hardware and networks we will never have access to.

Skills

Python production

Django

SQL

Async Python

Production debugging

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Plane in San Francisco seeks a Backend Software Engineer (Python) to own backend surfaces end to end, from API contracts to migrations, working on Django-based services behind projects, cycles, and permissions.

You will collaborate with engineers in San Francisco and Hyderabad, optimize queries, instrument deployments, and contribute to a platform that runs in cloud and self-hosted environments.