Staff Backend Engineer: Production Platform Lead

SkillBench; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech startup in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer - Production Platform (Tech Lead). You will lead productionization for product launches and key iterations while owning the architecture and standards as the team scales. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of backend development experience, strong architecture leadership, and is comfortable with productionizing analytics and telemetry. This full-time role offers meaningful equity and potential for contract-to-perm work.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production backend and data systems.
• Strong architecture leadership + mentoring track record.
• IaC / CI/CD mastery (Terraform/Helm/GitOps or equivalent).
• Observability + SLO experience (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent).
• Experience in productionizing analytics / telemetry / ML pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead productionization for upcoming launches and key product iterations.
• Own our architecture and engineering standards as we scale.

Skills

Building production backend and data systems

Architecture leadership + mentoring

IaC / CI/CD mastery (Terraform/Helm/GitOps)

Observability + SLO experience (Prometheus/Grafana)

Productionizing analytics / telemetry / ML pipelines

B2B SaaS + AI product experience

Interest in building developer tools

Job description

A tech startup in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer - Production Platform (Tech Lead). You will lead productionization for product launches and key iterations while owning the architecture and standards as the team scales. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of backend development experience, strong architecture leadership, and is comfortable with productionizing analytics and telemetry. This full-time role offers meaningful equity and potential for contract-to-perm work.