Staff Backend Engineer – Remote, Equity, Scale Real-Time Systems

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible vacation

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Life Insurance & Disability

Job summary

Syndio is hiring a Staff level Backend Engineer to join our core platform engineering group. You will design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems powering our core backend services, owning end-to-end design from APIs to infrastructure.

You will work on distributed microservices in Go and Python, real-time data pipelines with Kafka, and API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, with Cloud infrastructure in GCP/AWS and Terraform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating backend systems in production.
• Deep comfort with Go and Python, with strong experience building concurrent, high-performance systems.
• Strong database fundamentals with Postgres and relational ORMs, including query optimization.
• Experience building and maintaining event-driven architectures with Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written in Go and Python.
• Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka.
• Architect performant APIs across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.

Skills

Go

Python

APIs REST GraphQL gRPC

Kafka

Postgres

Terraform

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

Syndio is hiring a Staff level Backend Engineer to join our core platform engineering group. You will design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems powering our core backend services, owning end-to-end design from APIs to infrastructure.

You will work on distributed microservices in Go and Python, real-time data pipelines with Kafka, and API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, with Cloud infrastructure in GCP/AWS and Terraform.