Staff Back-End Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Back-End Engineer

• Focus: security, scalability, reliability, and production observability for distributed backend systems

Description

You’ll lead and steward engineering best practices while owning systemic, cross-service problems from definition through rollout. You’ll design and harden identity and access management (authentication, authorization, RBAC, OAuth/OIDC), strengthen AWS/cloud security posture and operational guardrails, and improve database performance and API resilience. You’ll also drive production reliability through incident remediation and the observability needed to catch issues early.

Responsibilities

• Mentor engineers and help develop impactful solutions

• Own end-to-end cross-service engineering problems

• Build and harden identity and access management capabilities (authentication, authorization, RBAC, OAuth/OIDC)

• Improve AWS/cloud security posture, configuration, and operational guardrails

• Enhance database performance, security, and optimization for high-volume transactional systems

• Harden APIs, services, and distributed systems against failure and abuse

• Lead incident remediation, close out root causes, and build observability

• Partner with the Security/CISO team to translate gaps into durable engineering solutions

• Build and scale services and user-facing web applications that are secure, performant, and customer-centric

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems

• Track record of shipping meaningful work in security, scale, or infrastructure (builder/owner mindset)

• Primarily backend-focused with comfort working across the stack

• Strong Java and AWS experience

• Ability to design and harden IAM capabilities including authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC

• Experience improving database performance/security in high-volume transactional systems

• Experience hardening APIs/services/distributed systems against failure and abuse

• Experience driving production reliability, incident remediation, and observability

• Strong communication and mentoring ability

Benefits

• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance (HMO and PPO)

• 401k savings plan with 4% match

• 16 weeks paid parental leave after one year

• Competitive total compensation and bonus program for eligible roles

• Professional growth with mobility program and annual L&D budget

• Company perks (e.g., discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, travel)

• Financial guidance program (debt, spend tracking, saving/planning, home-purchasing preparedness)

• Salary range: $220,000–$285,000 USD