Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Core (Remote)

Pindrop; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-first environment

Unlimited PTO

Health & welfare plans

HSA employer contribution

Parental Leave

Diaper delivery

Job summary

Pindrop is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to Platform Core with high-scale backend and data-layer services that power our voice security platform.

You’ll own end-to-end platform work—from problem framing to production rollout—teaming with Product, SRE, and other engineers to improve reliability, latency, and scalability. This remote-first role offers strong growth, competitive compensation, and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of experience building backend services in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Proven production ownership, including deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call participation.
• Strong experience with data and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs that support high-volume customer interactions.
• Take end-to-end ownership of platform work, from framing ambiguous problems and shaping technical plans through implementation, rollout, and production support.
• Improve reliability, scalability, latency, and cost across shared platform systems that serve teams across the business.
• Partner closely with Product, SRE, and peer engineering teams to deliver platform improvements without destabilizing live traffic.
• Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, and capacity planning.
• Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, and mentorship for other engineers on the team.

Skills

Backend systems

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud: AWS/GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

Production ownership

On-call experience

Job description

Pindrop is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to Platform Core with high-scale backend and data-layer services that power our voice security platform.

You’ll own end-to-end platform work—from problem framing to production rollout—teaming with Product, SRE, and other engineers to improve reliability, latency, and scalability. This remote-first role offers strong growth, competitive compensation, and extensive benefits.