Sr Backend Engineer, Platform Engineering - Network Data

Kentik; United States; Remote; USD 162,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Kentik is seeking a Sr Backend Engineer for their Platform Engineering team focused on Network Data. This role involves scaling the network data observability platform, collaborating with various teams, and contributing to high-performance, data-intensive systems. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits in a fully remote setup.

Benefits

100% health, vision, and dental premiums paid

Annual Health Reimbursement Account

Paid family & medical leave

Open PTO and wellness days

401(k) retirement account

Home office reimbursement

Stock options

Qualifications

• 5+ years in wide-area network deployments.
• 3+ years with Go/Java/Rust or similar.
• Solid understanding of network observability topics.

Responsibilities

• Develop network data observability features.
• Improve network data observability services.
• Collaborate with engineering and support teams.

Skills

Network management

Network data analytics

Collaboration skills

Tools

Go

Postgres

Kafka

Mysql

Redis

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Who We Are

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

Who We Are

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

What We Do

Kentik's Platform Engineering group is responsible for storing, enriching, and querying traffic metadata and metrics from the world's largest networks. Our platform actively monitors infrastructure, triggers automated responses to outages and attacks, and is critical to delivering complete network observability to our customers. Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. The scale that this group services is tremendous.

Platform Engineering consists of 4 teams; (1) Ingest and Storage, (2) Query, (3) Network Data, (4) SRE. As a senior engineer in platform engineering on the Network Data Team, you will have the opportunity to co-own, design, and scale a high-performance, data-intensive platform that processes the network monitoring data from the most influential companies on the internet.

We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, and a high level of independence and autonomy.

What You'll Do

Our Network Data Team is seeking an experienced backend engineer to scale our network data observability portions of our platform. You will work closely with customer service, product, and other engineering teams to develop new network data observability features.

• Work as an individual contributor to improve our network data observability services to meet customer demands
• Collaborate with other engineer teams, support, and sales teams
• Work on high-visibility, challenging engineering problems.
  
  

What You'll Bring

Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!

• 5+ years of experience working with wide-area network deployments, including analysis of the associated protocols
• Experience in network management or network data analytics
• 3+ years of experience with Go/Java/Rust, or similar languages
• Prior experience or an interest in working on large-scale SaaS systems
• Solid understanding of network observability topics like IPFIX/Netflow/sflow, SNMP, IP (v4/v6) allocation, BGP, DNS, etc and the network domain and use cases
• A passion to grow personally and contribute to our team
• Strong collaboration skills
  
  

Our tech stack

• Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
• We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
• We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
• In addition to our own database, we use Postgres, Kafka, Mysql, and Redis
• Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
• Haproxy, Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
• Github for source control, PRs, issues
• Jenkins for automated builds
  
  

What We Offer

Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.

The compensation range for this position is: $162,000 - $219,000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:

• Experience with the skill sets required for success
• Demonstrated competencies and potential
• A geographic market-based approach
  
  

In addition to a great career opportunity, Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees, which include:

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement
• Stock options
  
  

Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.

Come work with us

The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik.

We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.

We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status.

Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to [e-mail].

Come as you are!

You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer Networking Products

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