Senior Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems

Speedrun Talent Network; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is building a next-generation power platform by linking distributed batteries, data streams, and automation. The role focuses on designing and operating complex, correct systems beyond CRUD backends.

You will own end-to-end flows from member onboarding through retail operations, ensuring reliability, observability, and safety at scale. You will collaborate across teams to define invariants, handle failures, and push automated workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience building or operating distributed systems with real correctness requirements.
• Ability to design APIs with clear ownership and invariants.
• Comfort with retries, partial failures, and observability across services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems that support critical member and operational workflows.
• Define ownership, state, invariants, and failure handling across services.
• Ensure correctness under retries, duplicate events, and delayed data.
• Make tradeoffs between consistency, availability, latency, and complexity.
• Identify bottlenecks and automate manual work.
• Build infrastructure for experimentation, integrations, and workflow orchestration.
• Stream live data into internal and member-facing apps.
• Communicate decisions clearly across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Analytical thinking

Observability

Idempotency

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Cloud platforms

Job description

Base is building a next-generation power platform by linking distributed batteries, data streams, and automation. The role focuses on designing and operating complex, correct systems beyond CRUD backends.

You will own end-to-end flows from member onboarding through retail operations, ensuring reliability, observability, and safety at scale. You will collaborate across teams to define invariants, handle failures, and push automated workflows.