Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Recruiting From Scratch; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruiting From Scratch is looking for an experienced backend platform engineer for a remote role. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in cloud technologies and high-scale systems and should thrive in a startup culture. The position offers a competitive salary range and requires significant professional experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering on high-scale systems.
• Experience in at least one backend language.
• Worked at a startup and desire to work in a startup environment.

Skills

Backend platform engineering

Cloud experience

Kubernetes

High scale systems

Job description

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

This is a remote role for our client based in US, Canada, or Mexico.

Candidate requirements

• Previous experience in backend platform engineering (e.g work on core platform, site reliability, high scale system, data processing)
• 8+ years of experience working on high scale systems. We're not considering work experience working on frontend technologies or work experience outside of actual jobs (no side gigs or solo gigs).
• Must have experience working in the cloud
• Must have solid experience in at least one backend language
• Must have familiarity with Kubernetes
• Must have worked on high scale systems
• Must have worked at at least one startup before
• Must actively want to work for a startup

Nice-to-haves

• Nice to have experience in Typescript, Kotlin
• Nice to have experience with Clickhouse, Athena, Presto

The salary range is $160,000 - $230,000