Staff Engineer - Backend

Post Date

Apr 10, 2025

Location

San Francisco,
California

ZIP/Postal Code

94105
US
Jun 23, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Perm

Category

Software Engineering

Req #

DGO-769043

Pay Rate

$180k - $250k (estimate)

Job Description

About the role
Design and implement our multi-tenant cloud and single-tenant enterprise platform that powers the product experience for developers.

Your mission:
Deliver a scalable product experience to developers by building our cloud and enterprise product offering.

Responsibilities:
On this team you will build the platform, the backbone of our product experience that sits between our LLM (Large Language Model) and our end-user product (editor extensions, and web application).

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Required Skills & Experience

Skills & Experience
Experience building API backends that serve large number of users or that have a high volume of requests
Experience deploying on Enterprise single-tenant environments is a plus
Comfortable with distributed systems
Data pipelines, distributed processing, fault tolerance, performance optimization.
Message queues, event-driven architectures, e.g. Kafka, Google pub/sub.
Clouds: managed services, storage. GCP, AWS, Azure.
Experience with developer experience tools
Worked on CI/CD pipelines
Worked with containerization in production environments
Experience with testing code
Unit testing
Integration testing
Test performance optimization
Programming languages
Experience in either Go, Ruby or Python (we're open to people from other languages)
Big plus if you've worked with C++ or other lower level languages
Other relevant tools/experience
DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform, baremetal.
Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.