Senior Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems & Scale

Eight Sleep; Milan (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Equity participation

Flexible PTO

Commuter benefits

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Eight Sleep is the world’s first sleep fitness company, delivering data-driven recovery through advanced hardware, software, and AI technology. We’re building a high-performance team solving complex distributed systems to power our member experience.

We’re seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to expand product features and scale our backend, machine learning, and data flows across embedded and BI systems. If you thrive under pressure and value impact, join us.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years as a backend engineer / SRE.
• Proficiency in at least two languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin, C#/F#, Python, NodeJS/TypeScript).
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the data processing pipeline (5Tb per day).
• Develop tools to guarantee availability of ~30 microservices and automate their operation.
• Contribute to the development of back-end services and product features.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend engineer

Distributed systems

Cloud services

Polyglot languages

Job description

Eight Sleep is the world’s first sleep fitness company, delivering data-driven recovery through advanced hardware, software, and AI technology. We’re building a high-performance team solving complex distributed systems to power our member experience.

We’re seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to expand product features and scale our backend, machine learning, and data flows across embedded and BI systems. If you thrive under pressure and value impact, join us.