Software Engineer, Infrastructure/Back-end (Staff/Senior Staff)

Kustomer; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Kustomer, an industry-leading CRM platform, seeks a passionate Software Engineer specializing in Infrastructure/Back-end. This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects that enhance the developer experience and improve critical backend components. Ideal candidates possess a strong technical background and a love for AI and automation.

Benefits

100% healthcare coverage

401K

WiFi reimbursement

Generous vacation policy

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in managing large-scale, distributed web applications.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers.
• Mastery of high-level programming languages like Go, Python, JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, and maintain software infrastructure.
• Lead projects to improve scalability, performance, and availability.
• Collaborate with the InfoSec team to enhance platform security.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-Solving

Curiosity

Detail-Oriented

Adaptability

Technical Excellence

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Tools

AWS

MongoDB

Redis

Elasticsearch

Javascript

Go

Job description

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About Kustomer

Kustomer is the industry leading conversational CRM platform perfecting every customer experience. Built with intelligent tools such as AI and Automation, no code-configuration and a connected data platform that unifies data from multiple sources through a single timeline, Kustomer empowers businesses to operate with greater efficiency and deliver more personalized service to customers across any channel, making every interaction more meaningful and memorable. Today, Kustomer is the core platform for leading brands like Abercrombie, Nuts.com, Skims, Turo, Priceline and Sweetgreen.

About Kustomer

Kustomer is the industry leading conversational CRM platform perfecting every customer experience. Built with intelligent tools such as AI and Automation, no code-configuration and a connected data platform that unifies data from multiple sources through a single timeline, Kustomer empowers businesses to operate with greater efficiency and deliver more personalized service to customers across any channel, making every interaction more meaningful and memorable. Today, Kustomer is the core platform for leading brands like Abercrombie, Nuts.com, Skims, Turo, Priceline and Sweetgreen.

Kustomer was founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs Brad Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel and has raised over $200M in funding backed by leading VCs. Meta announced its intention to acquire Kustomer in 2020 and completed the transaction in 2022. Kustomer joined Meta’s Business Messaging Group to transform the way people and businesses communicate through modern messaging channels. In 2023, Kustomer spun out from Meta as a standalone company backed by original partners, Battery, Redpoint and Boldstart Ventures, who have invested $60M in capital, ensuring Kustomer’s growth and success for many years to come.

Our Krew is made up of passionate and collaborative people who really care about what they do and the people they help. We look for people who are dedicated to enhancing the customer service experience for everyone involved, as it's the core of what we do. We're growing our business with no plans of slowing down. We actively seek individuals who want to learn and be challenged every day. Kustomer has a strong NYC presence and is also a remote friendly company, with Krew members located throughout the US and United Kingdom. We believe in togetherness to help foster strong relationships, collaboration and communication, and our Krew gets together for both KKO and Kamp Kustomer each year.

About The Role

As an infrastructure engineer at Kustomer, you will be responsible for building systems and abstractions that will be used by teams across the company. You will join a team of experienced engineers and have ample opportunities to continue learning and growing. This role sits on our Foundation team - part of your responsibilities on this team will include improving the developer experience, application observability, and designing architectural changes in critical backend components including database sharding strategies, event bus performance, scaling search systems, and improving end to end latency. We believe in ownership and are looking for people driven to continuously deliver positive and impactful changes. The responsibilities of this role are divided into 75% backend systems and 25% infrastructure and may vary depending on a number of factors.

What We're Seeking

We seek engineers who combine technical excellence with genuine passion for their craft. Our ideal candidate is someone who approaches challenges with curiosity and intrinsic motivation; working on problems not just because they're assigned, but because they find the work genuinely engaging and meaningful.

You should be someone who is naturally detail-oriented, professional, and brings a structured approach to your work while remaining open-minded and adaptable to new technologies and methodologies. We value candidates who work hard and maintain high personal standards, driven by ambition to grow both technically and professionally.

Most importantly, we're looking for engineers who are passionate about the technology space we operate in, particularly AI and automation. You should be excited about the problems we're solving and eager to contribute to innovative solutions that push the boundaries of what's possible.

If you're someone who takes ownership of your work, approaches challenges with intellectual curiosity, and thrives in environments where your passion for technology can directly impact product development, we'd love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as a Lead and senior member of the team, leading initiatives and key projects
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence
• Analyze, design, develop, maintain and improve software infrastructure and platform to expand its capabilities
• Measure, report and drive improvements on scalability, performance, and availability
• Lead complex projects and efforts to improve our ability to respond to impaired production systems
• Lead, plan, and execute large scale system changes to meet business objectives
• Tackle ambiguous engineering problems by designing well architected solutions
• Participate in cross-team initiatives to drive engineering best-practices
• Collaborate with the CTO and other technical leaders to set the vision for strategic development efforts
• Work with various engineering teams to bridge gaps and lead initiatives across backend systems
• Proactively identify systemic inefficiencies, design and implement improvements
• Collaborate with the InfoSec team to drive compliance, observability and automation for the security of our platform
• Work closely with the Security team to address gaps and vulnerabilities during audits to satisfy compliance requirements
• Manage and coordinate security vulnerabilities and upgrade schedules for EOL (End of Life) software
• Lead or assist in security investigations as needed
  

Our Tech Stack:

• Javascript (React/node.js), Go
• AWS Cloud, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
  
  

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years experience building and managing large scale, highly available, distributed web applications
• Mastery of a high-level programming language like Go, Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience solving scale challenges in complex distributed systems
• Experience owning technical architecture discussions and leading decisions for an engineering organization
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers through technical projects and initiatives
  
  

Nice To Have:

• You have Github activity showing thoughtful, relevant contributions
• You have a working knowledge of writing code and scripts in more than one language
• You have experience with IaC tools such as Terraform
• You have experience designing sharding configurations for databases
• You have experience developing internal tools for others
• You have experience creating SLAs, SLOs, SLIs
  
  

HIPAA Compliance

All roles at Kustomer may involve handling sensitive personal data.

Benefits

Kustomer offers an array of benefits including competitive salaries and stock options. In the U.S. we offer 100% healthcare coverage, 401K, WiFi and Mobile reimbursement, and a generous vacation policy; in the UK we also offer pension, supplemental health insurance and other perks.

Diversity & Inclusion at Kustomer

Kustomer is committed to bringing together individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives.

We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do great work together.We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Disclaimer: Kustomer only contacts candidates from company email addresses ending in kustomer.com and does not seek funds from candidates in any circumstances.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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