Staff Backend Engineer, Core

360 Privacy

Staff Backend Engineer designing and owning backend systems for a digital security platform. Collaborating cross-functionally to build and maintain production-grade REST APIs and secure backend services.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeBrentwood • Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSJenkinsPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and own production-grade REST APIs and backend services.
Architect and maintain scalable, secure backend systems with clear ownership of trade-off decisions and long-term maintainability.
Ensure high performance and responsiveness of applications across the platform.
Collaborate with front-end developers and cross-functional teams to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and architectural direction in a collaborative, low-ego environment.
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues as they arise.
Partner with Product, Security, and Data teams to translate ambiguous requirements into durable backend platforms.
Make principled decisions about when architectural approaches are inappropriate, particularly in security- or compliance-sensitive areas.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience designing, building, and owning production-grade REST APIs at scale.
Hands-on production experience with core AWS services including ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, and IAM.
Demonstrated ability to make and own architectural decisions on production backend systems, including trade-off analysis and long-term maintainability.
Proficient with recent, continuous production experience using Python as a primary language (not occasional scripting or secondary usage).
Proficient in working with SQL databases in production environments.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent, with hands-on ownership of pipeline configuration and deployment automation.
Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering standards, documentation, or architectural direction.
Experience and willingness to learn and adapt to AI prompt engineering.
U.S. residency required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Unique perk: Digital privacy protection for you and your family.
Continuous learning opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

REST APIsAWSPythonSQLCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsECSRDSLambda

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationdecision-makingtroubleshootingcommunicationdocumentationarchitectural directionadaptability