Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems, On-Site SF

Digital Waffle; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Equity

Job summary

Digital Waffle in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to design and build distributed services capable of high throughput and reliability. This role requires ownership of deployment, observability, and performance, with architectural influence to scale the platform over the coming years.

You will work in person with a senior team, owning critical decisions that ship rapidly and matter, with relocation support available for strong candidates from across the US and Europe.

Qualifications

• Backend experience in Go, Rust, Java, Python, or similar.
• Distributed systems: consensus, replication, queues, caching, data partitioning.
• You’ve been paged at 3am, found the root cause, and made sure it never happened again.
• Bonus: Kafka, or experience at a high-scale infra-heavy startup.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed backend services that handle high throughput and stay up when it matters.
• Own infrastructure end to end: deployment, observability, reliability, performance.
• Make architectural calls that shape how the platform scales over the next few years.
• Work in person with a small, senior team where your decisions ship fast and matter.

Skills

Go

Rust

Java

Python

Job description

Digital Waffle in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to design and build distributed services capable of high throughput and reliability. This role requires ownership of deployment, observability, and performance, with architectural influence to scale the platform over the coming years.

You will work in person with a senior team, owning critical decisions that ship rapidly and matter, with relocation support available for strong candidates from across the US and Europe.