Senior Staff Software Engineer – Backend Python
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $169,500 - $366,850 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Establish a track record of successful technical leadership supported by a solid understanding of software architecture.
- Act as a subject matter expert and be leveraged for your technical expertise.
- Research and explore internal and industry-wide technologies to propose solutions to ambitious and ambiguous business problems.
- Provide direction and clarity during incident management to ensure urgency in mitigation.
- Uphold the credo that we should never let a good customer have a bad day on our platform.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in building large-scale applications with a high-level programming language.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, and/or product development.
- Advanced skills with various data store technologies, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols/systems.
- Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff.
- Experience in architecting and developing fault-tolerant distributed services and backend systems.
- DevOps mindset and expertise with building services on public cloud providers.
- Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master's degree in Computer science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work environment
- Employee shares options
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software architecturelarge-scale applicationsdata store technologiescaching solutionsmessaging protocolsqueuing systemsfault-tolerant distributed servicesbackend systemstesting best practicestesting framework
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringproject leadershipincident managementproblem-solvingcustomer service focus
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree