Staff Backend Engineer, Discovery API

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Backend Engineer (Discovery API)

Description

Own and evolve the catalog discovery API end to end, influencing architecture and technical direction on a small, high-autonomy team. Build and operate data pipelines that keep the catalog current, tune performance across the API and Postgres at scale, and ship with automated tests and reliable deploys. Work involves large geospatial datasets (raster and vector) and high-traffic API performance in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the catalog API from design through production
• Build and operate data pipelines that keep the catalog current
• Tune API and PostgreSQL performance at scale
• Ship safely and often with automated tests and reliable deploys
• Shape architecture and technical direction with a small team

Requirements

• 3-5 years of backend development building secure, scalable production services
• Python and API design experience using a framework such as FastAPI or Flask
• Experience building and operating data pipelines over large datasets
• PostgreSQL experience, including performance tuning at scale
• Cloud services experience (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or similar)
• Infrastructure as code experience such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Automated testing discipline
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including a robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Perks such as student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance
• Incentive eligibility based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results