Substack

Systems Engineer

Substack

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York

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Salary

💰 $185,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudNode.jsPostgresRedis

About the role

  • Build out Substack’s platforms to scale with growing traffic and a multitude of services to support writer and reader communities.
  • Contribute to the whole product process in collaboration with designers, writers, support staff, and others.
  • Own work from product concept and research to implementation and deployment.
  • Work primarily with Node/Express, Postgres, Redis, and AWS.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Can contribute across the full web stack, with a focus on building resilient, scalable backend systems.
  • Independent and autonomous.
  • Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems.
  • Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences.
  • Enjoy collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders.
  • Believe in Substack’s mission to build a better business model for writing.
  • We primarily work with Node/Express, Postgres, and Redis, and our cloud infrastructure is hosted on AWS.