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Senior Backend Engineer, GraphQL

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $191,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap as well as taking on metrics and tracing scaling challenges that push the boundaries of our existing observability infrastructure
  • Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
  • Developing technical expertise in Viaduct framework as well as informed with product teams’ use cases and requests
  • Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers and ensuring that their code gets deployed daily to production
  • Get into the flow during daily and intentional Focus Time blocks

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in a relevant role - ideally in a team that owned a developer platform
  • Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
  • Experience operating critical online backend services
  • Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
  • Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL, Kotlin, AI-enabled development flows
Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits
  • Base pay dependent on experience and market demands
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Equity opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Viaduct frameworkGraphQLKotlinbackend servicescoding projects
Soft Skills
cross-team collaborationdefining project requirementscustomer supportreliability improvementperformance improvement