Senior Platform Backend Engineer APIs Cloud Systems

Carbon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 209,600 - 314,400; Full time

Job summary

Carbon in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Platform Back End Engineer to join a tight-knit team. You will own Tier-0 services, extend mission-critical ecosystems, and help scale our web infrastructure and APIs on Google Cloud Platform.

We value senior technical contributors who mentor others and drive architecture from design through production, collaborating across hardware, software, and data pipelines to deliver high-performance, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Expert knowledge in building and scaling APIs.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Strong communication, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Operate & extend mission-critical ecosystems, keeping core services resilient and highly available.
• Build scalable web infrastructure and scale database and API layers on cloud platforms.
• Apply expertise in React and modern frontend architecture to data-heavy control systems.
• Own major initiatives end-to-end from design to production and influence architectural decisions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship within a diverse team.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

C++

Go

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Carbon in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Platform Back End Engineer to join a tight-knit team. You will own Tier-0 services, extend mission-critical ecosystems, and help scale our web infrastructure and APIs on Google Cloud Platform.

We value senior technical contributors who mentor others and drive architecture from design through production, collaborating across hardware, software, and data pipelines to deliver high-performance, reliable systems.