Senior Backend Engineer - Scale High-Throughput APIs & Data

Judgment Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Judgment Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in San Francisco, CA. You will design and build high-throughput backend services that process agent telemetry efficiently. This role involves owning the API surface for our SDKs and dashboards while ensuring system scalability.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience with backend systems, strong fundamentals in API design, and hands-on experience with OLAP databases like ClickHouse. You'll work with various technologies, optimizing performance while maintaining a high engineering quality standard.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and operating high-throughput backend systems.
• Fundamentals in API design and data modeling.
• Hands-on experience with OLAP databases like ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

• Design high-throughput backend services to process agent traces.
• Own the API surface for SDKs and dashboards.
• Tune the OLAP layer for performance optimization.

Skills

High-throughput backend systems

API design

Data modeling

Distributed systems

OLAP / columnar databases

Strong communication skills

Tools

ClickHouse

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

Job description

Judgment Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in San Francisco, CA. You will design and build high-throughput backend services that process agent telemetry efficiently. This role involves owning the API surface for our SDKs and dashboards while ensuring system scalability.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience with backend systems, strong fundamentals in API design, and hands-on experience with OLAP databases like ClickHouse. You'll work with various technologies, optimizing performance while maintaining a high engineering quality standard.