Staff Backend Engineer (Core DevOps: CI/CD Artifact Management)

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Backend Engineer (Core DevOps)
• Key focus: Backend architecture leadership, monolith modernization, and platform standards (reliability, security, operability)
• Operational scope: On-call and incident response for systems owned by your teams

Description

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, leading large backend initiatives and modernizing a monolith into modular, reusable, appropriately independent systems. You’ll define and improve standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, and operability—while influencing technical direction without formal authority. You’ll also mentor engineers, reduce technical debt, and support adoption of AI-assisted/agentic workflows with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and delivery of backend initiatives spanning teams; identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.
• Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture; modernize monolith and legacy backends while preventing fragmentation and service sprawl.
• Define and improve standards for application programming interfaces, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability.
• Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.
• Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices where they matter; guide Rust adoption where it addresses systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs.
• Participate in on-call and incident response; act as a technical escalation point during complex incidents and turn lessons into lasting improvements.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs.
• Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, build reusable patterns to improve team throughput, and lead adoption of AI-assisted/agentic workflows with guardrails.
• Take part in on-call or operational support as required by the team’s ownership model.

Requirements

• Record of leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area.
• Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms.
• Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production using modular approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, and event-driven boundaries.
• Experience creating alignment through clear written proposals and decision records.
• Experience making trade-offs among customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and practice.
• Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including improving how teams adopt them.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave