Platform Backend Engineer — Scale Infra (Remote)

Bubble; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) matching

Wellness stipend

Generous PTO

Sabbatical

Job summary

Bubble is a remote-friendly US role for an engineer to help scale a cloud platform powering millions of apps. You’ll join a small, elite team working on infrastructure, backend services, and a workflow engine with on-call duties.

The role offers growth, collaboration, and a culture that values openness and learning. We embrace a diverse, inclusive environment with senior engineers to learn from, and the chance to shape a platform that enables rapid, secure, and scalable software for customers

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, preferably with experience in high-growth startups.
• Strong coding skills.
• Some understanding of scalable distributed systems, and a willingness to build proficiency with languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus).
• Ownership mindset, taking initiative to build and fix.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of contributing to solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities.
• Willingness to participate in on-call processes to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
• Alignment with our values, including a desire to empower others, a focus on team and user success over individual achievement, and transparency and willingness to admit mistakes and failures.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Bubble infrastructure that scales to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity
• Help improve performance and reliability across backend services, supporting our efficiency, capacity management, and data tier
• Support observability efforts across core parts of the system, helping implement SLOs and surface performance characteristics to end users
• Help support billions of requests across a platform that powers arbitrary end user applications, by building and iterating on core backbone services
• Contribute to the workflow engine and data tier, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications
• Build foundational services and tools that support our next-generation cloud infrastructure
• Participate in our triage and on-call process (along with the rest of the engineering team) to diagnose and resolve issues, and help implement changes that prevent recurrence

Skills

2+ years experience

Strong coding

Distributed systems

Ownership

Problem solving

Communication

On-call willingness

Values alignment

Tools

Node.js

Rust

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Job description

Bubble is a remote-friendly US role for an engineer to help scale a cloud platform powering millions of apps. You’ll join a small, elite team working on infrastructure, backend services, and a workflow engine with on-call duties.

The role offers growth, collaboration, and a culture that values openness and learning. We embrace a diverse, inclusive environment with senior engineers to learn from, and the chance to shape a platform that enables rapid, secure, and scalable software for customers