Senior Platform Core Backend Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Unlimited PTO

Health and welfare plans

Job summary

Pindrop is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform Core to own backend and data-layer services that power our trust platform. You will design scalable APIs, ensure SLA-compliant operation, and drive reliability across high-volume workflows.

You’ll collaborate with Product, SRE, and other engineers, mentoring teammates and elevating platform quality. Remote-first with in-person team events.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience building backend services and APIs in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go.
• Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Proven production ownership, including deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and participating in on-call for high-scale services.
• Strong experience with data and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ, with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Nice-to-haves include Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, IAM, Terraform, and comprehensive observability.

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 scoping to production rollout and support.
• Improve reliability, scalability, latency, and cost across shared platform systems.
• Partner with Product, SRE, and engineering teams to deliver improvements without destabilizing live traffic.
• Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, and improve alerting and runbooks.
• Mentor peers and raise engineering standards through code reviews and design reviews.

Tools

Python

Go

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

SQL/NoSQL data

Redshift

Elasticsearch

DynamoDB

S3

Kinesis

Terraform

Observability

IAM

Job description

Pindrop is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform Core to own backend and data-layer services that power our trust platform. You will design scalable APIs, ensure SLA-compliant operation, and drive reliability across high-volume workflows.

You’ll collaborate with Product, SRE, and other engineers, mentoring teammates and elevating platform quality. Remote-first with in-person team events.