Staff Backend Engineer – Scalable Data Platforms (Remote)

Unknown; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown is a marketing technology platform that activates warehouse data, builds audiences, and measures performance. The team focuses on scalable, reliable backend systems and operates with a collaborative engineering culture from a remote-first setup across the United States.

This staff-level backend engineer role targets 6–15 years of experience, with a track record of growing responsibilities. You will design large-scale systems and lead data processing initiatives to support rapid growth

Qualifications

• 6 to 15 years of backend engineering experience, including building systems at high-growth startups.
• Staff-level experience with a record of growing responsibilities or promotions.
• Strong systems design fundamentals and large-scale data processing experience.

Responsibilities

• Own backend systems, focusing on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Improve data warehouse performance through query optimization and precomputed state.
• Build analytics and experimentation features and real-time audience syncing.

Skills

Backend systems

Startup scale

Systems design

Data processing

Job description

Unknown is a marketing technology platform that activates warehouse data, builds audiences, and measures performance. The team focuses on scalable, reliable backend systems and operates with a collaborative engineering culture from a remote-first setup across the United States.

This staff-level backend engineer role targets 6–15 years of experience, with a track record of growing responsibilities. You will design large-scale systems and lead data processing initiatives to support rapid growth