Staff Backend Engineer

Doss; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO and mandatory US Holidays

401(k), immediate eligibility

Fitness and commuter stipends

Catered lunch 4 days a week

Relocation assistance available

Job summary

A forward-thinking tech company in San Francisco is seeking a talented engineer to design a schema-as-code platform and large-scale ETL solutions. The role requires expertise in cloud services, with responsibilities including building a version-control migration engine and engineering AI-assisted tooling. The position offers a competitive salary range of $200k-$280k, comprehensive benefits, and a culture fostering teamwork and continuous growth.

Qualifications

• Expertise in building large-scale ETL.
• Ability to use cloud services for deploying applications.
• Working in abstractions for complex architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design the core EAV data model & schema-as-code platform.
• Build Git-style version-control and migration engine.
• Engineer AI-assisted tooling for schema proposals.
• Scale the data warehouse for analytics and automation.
• Create APIs and SDKs for business processes.
• Deliver end-to-end observability across data.
• Build guard rails into the system.
• Mentor and shape engineering culture.

Skills

Building large scale ETL

Using cloud services

Graph-based architectures

Tools

Postgres

Elasticsearch

DuckDB

Memgraph

Job description

Who are we

We’re building the “Terraform for operators” — an AI‑generated schema layer driving a white‑labeled data warehouse that lets physical‑goods companies evolve their systems of record as fast as their business operations change.

Think AI foundation models driving schema migrations, real‑time observability across ops/finance data, complex git versioning of schema and data changes, and workflows you compose like infrastructure code.

What you’ll do

• Design the core EAV data model & schema‑as‑code platform that powers every customer’s instance, balancing extreme flexibility with transactional integrity.

• Build a Git‑style version‑control + migration engine capable of rolling forward/back complex schema and data changes on live production tenants in enterprise settings.

• Engineer AI‑assisted tooling that uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply new customer schemas and workflow definitions.

• Scale our white‑labeled data warehouse (BigQuery/Snowflake‑like) for high‑volume, low‑latency analytics and automation workloads.

• Create Terraform‑like declarative APIs & SDKs so ops teams can treat business processes as code while you ensure security, tenancy, and performance.

• Deliver end‑to‑end observability & search across supply‑chain, finance, and ops data—surfacing business logic in plain language through AI‑native search.

• Build Enterprise guard rails into a composable system to proactively detect anomalous behavior or risky emergent patterns

• Mentor and shape engineering culture, partnering with product and design to turn unsexy back‑office pain into elegant, resilient systems loved by operators.

What you’re good at

• Expertise building large scale ETL on databases like Postgres, Elasticsearch, DuckDB, Memgraph (Graph DB), etc

• Using cloud services to build + deploy reliable web applications

• Working in abstractions to build complex graph‑based architectures that scale

About you

• Team player: you bring positivity, openness, and curiosity to the team every day.

• Growth mindset: everything is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself, the team, and the company.

• Craftsmanship: you care about making something of quality.

• Pragmatic: you make the right decision based on circumstance, not theory.

• Low Ego: you work best in collaborative environments where everyone supports the team.

We have top‑notch benefits

• Premium comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Unlimited PTO and mandatory US Holidays.

• 401(k), immediate eligibility.

• Fitness, commuter (BART/MUNI/CalTrain), and equipment stipends.

• Premier office space with snacks, drinks (caffeinated, carbonated, coffee), and guest appearances by Nicolas Cage.

• Lunch catered into office 4 days per week.

• Relocation assistance available.

Compensation

• The salary range for this role is $200k-$280k.

• Strong equity component: we believe employees building Doss deserve ownership.