Backend Engineer

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns.
• You will use continuous delivery practices as needed to deliver high-quality software and value to end customers.
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.
• You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
• You will partner with other technologists from cross-functional teams advocating and demonstrating DevOps culture.
• You will take ownership and accountability beyond individual deliverables, always pushing the envelope in order to deliver awesome results for our clients.
• You will learn, digest and subsequently apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems.

Consultant Developer, Kotlin, Java

• Designing, implementing, and delivering innovations for managing GPU based AI servers with focus on OOB management, firmware development, server architecture and building systems for enterprise
• Leading BMC firmware design with a global team of engineers
• Designing and developing performance optimized active monitoring BMC solutions using DMTF Standards including MCTP, Redfish, SPDM and PLDM specifications
• Instrumenting code to ensure maximum code coverage
• Writing and automating unit tests for each implemented module and maintain detailed unit test case reports
• Providing software quality reports based on static analysis, code coverage, CPU load
• Working with security team to ensure developed code is in line with product security goals
• Working closely with hardware teams to influence hardware design and review HW architecture & schematics
• Driving definition and end to end delivery of all platforms by collaborating with internal teams, ODMs/OEMs and industry partners for AI servers
• Working with QA/Test architects to come up with proper test tools and automation for qualifying the whole system software and firmware stack

Senior Software Engineer – Server Manageability

• Developing and deploying scalable and elegant code
• Work with distributed systems and data pipelines
• Lead and drive projects to completion
• Innovating on creative solutions to difficult problems
• Work with related data infrastructure technologies

• Talk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities: generating dashboards, writing analysis scripts, and surfacing insights buried in their telemetry
• Design, ship, and operate agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data and hardware domain context
• Build everything around the model that makes agents dependable: tool interfaces, sandboxed execution for agent-generated code, context and memory management, custom compaction algorithms, opinionated skills, and guardrails
• Build the distributed systems that let long-running agent work stream in real time, survive disconnects, and resume across restarts
• Design job-based execution systems that schedule, scale, and tear down agent workloads on Kubernetes, both in the cloud and on-prem
• Develop and maintain Sift’s MCP server, the tool surface that lets both our agents and our customers’ AI tools query telemetry directly
• Design and implement the APIs that power our agentic capabilities
• Build evaluation suites that measure whether agents actually help engineers, and instrument quality, latency, cost, and failure modes in production
• Integrate and assess frontier models across providers

Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

• Talk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities
• Design, ship, and operate agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data and hardware domain context
• Build everything around the model that makes agents dependable, including tool interfaces and sandboxed code execution
• Build distributed systems that allow long-running agent work streams in real time
• Design job-based execution systems for Kubernetes in the cloud and on-premises
• Develop and maintain Sift’s MCP server for direct telemetry querying
• Design and implement APIs powering agentic capabilities
• Build evaluation suites to measure agents’ impact on engineers and instrument qualities in production
• Integrate and assess frontier models across providers

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Agentic AI

• Design and develop control plane features for network security products using Go in Linux-based environments
• Build and maintain APIs used for policy configuration, deployment workflows, logging, and operational visibility
• Integrate third-party components and internal services into Cisco security platforms
• Collaborate with data plane and platform engineering teams to deliver end-to-end feature functionality
• Contribute to architecture discussions, feature design, and technical execution for new security capabilities

Senior Software Engineer – Control Plane, Go, Kubernetes

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs.
• Define and enforce API standards, schema design best practices, and versioning strategies.
• Drive decisions around backend frameworks, tooling, infrastructure, and observability.
• Ensure systems are secure, performant, resilient, and maintainable.
• Oversee API lifecycle management, including documentation, testing, monitoring, and deprecation.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Client Engineering, DevOps, Research, and Architecture teams to deliver aligned solutions.
• Own roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution for backend services.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
• Manage technical debt proactively while balancing feature development.
• Drive observability, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring standards.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for backend services.
• Implement reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning.
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.

Senior Manager, Backend Services

• Maintain a deep understanding of the data components - including Cassandra, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Zookeeper, MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, and use that understanding to operate and automate properly configured clusters.
• Develop infrastructure services to support the CrowdStrike engineering team’s pursuit of a full devops model.
• Work closely with Engineering and Customer Support to troubleshoot time-sensitive production issues, regardless of when they happen.
• Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available.

Senior Engineer – Database Engineering

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace/App Experience

• deliver features and improvements on the SaaS Manager platform
• take end-to-end ownership of well-defined features from initial development through production
• participate actively in code reviews, giving and receiving thoughtful feedback, and use both as opportunities to grow your technical judgment
• write meaningful tests and clear documentation as part of your regular workflow, not as an afterthought
• collaborate with product managers and designers to understand the customer problems behind your work and advocate for good outcomes within your scope
• surface blockers and open questions early, keeping yourself and your teammates unblocked and the work moving forward

.Net Developer, SaaS Manager

• Develop new features across our Node.js/TypeScript backend services
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Collaborate with frontend developers and product designers to improve usability
• Write robust, clean, and documented code
• Maintain and enhance existing applications
• Conduct performance tests and ensure responsiveness and stability across all platforms

Senior Backend Software Engineer – Node.js/TypeScript

• Develop, scale, and maintain platforms and services sustaining Cisco services and data platforms
• Design, build, ship, analyze, and maintain scalable, distributed, enterprise software solutions
• Build and maintain backend components using C++ in a Linux environment
• Focus on increasing reliability, performance, scalability, testability, maintainability, observability, and developer experience
• Work with various groups within Cisco to understand data requirements and requests

• Build the technical foundation for virtual care delivery.
• Enable operational intelligence and automation.
• Lead critical technical decisions.
• Help establish engineering practices.
• Own system reliability and performance.

Staff Backend Software Engineer, Elixir

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Ledger Engineering

• Providing an industry leading secure custodial and technology service to enable intuitive experiences moving, storing, and interacting with digital assets, smart contracts, or traditional banking rails.
• Responsible for the entire custody experience, including the management and transferring of cash, coins and NFTs, staking assets, interacting with onchain smart contracts, fiat transfers, and institutional platform solutions.
• Building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner.

Member of Technical Staff, Custody – Backend Engineer

• Build API-based products from the ground up. Design and ship the low-latency, high-reliability APIs and services that power Leaderboards, Evals, and Arena data products — clean, versioned, and built for the developers who consume them.
• Turn evaluations into product. Partner with the research team to take novel eval methods and make them durable, full-featured products: scoring pipelines, data models, and the APIs that expose them.
• Ship enterprise-grade backends. Usage metering, cost attribution, billing integration, authentication, RBAC, multi-tenancy, and audit logging — the systems enterprise customers expect.
• Own the data architecture. Unify our public and private evaluation data, design schemas that hold up as the product grows, and make Arena’s data queryable, consistent, and fast.
• Flex across the stack. Contribute to the backend of our Leaderboards and Evals platforms when needed, helping unify our public and private data architectures.

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable RESTful APIs and backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, powering mission-critical loan origination workflows.
• Design efficient database schemas and optimize queries and migrations across PostgreSQL and MongoDB; implement caching strategies (e.g., Redis) for high-throughput workloads.
• Build, test, and deploy containerized applications with Docker; deploy and operate services on AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, SQS).
• Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).
• Champion system reliability, performance, and secure coding best practices — our platform handles sensitive borrower data, and we operate in a SOC 2 Type II environment where security is a first-class engineering concern.
• Partner with our Support team as an engineering point of contact for escalated production issues at scale — triage, root-cause, and resolve end-to-end, then land the permanent fix, alerting, and runbooks so issues don’t recur. Drive performance optimization across the backend and data layers.
• Coordinate daily with our India-based engineering team — handoffs, code reviews, and design alignment — keeping core hours of 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM PT to maximize morning overlap.
• Lead technical design sessions and code reviews, mentor mid-level engineers, and contribute to product planning and architectural roadmaps.

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

• Manage Kubernetes for on-prem and in AWS production environments with end-to-end responsibilities of deployment, upgrade, patching, performance tuning, capacity planning & backups/DR.
• Frequent full security patching of all layers of Kubernetes infrastructure while maintaining very high uptime
• Ownership and engineering responsibility of production AWS and Kubernetes services
• Identify and resolve full Kubernetes stack engineering problems independently
• Ensure successful real-time analysis of telemetry data from space launch partners, such as SpaceX, United Launch Alliance (ULA), and Blue Origin
• Provide after-hours support for Kubernetes infrastructure troubleshooting during launch events
• Support scientists and engineers running workloads and apps in Kubernetes
• Provide Linux expertise and troubleshooting
• Evaluate and test new products and technologies
• Use code to enhance and automate operations

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Consultant Developer, Kotlin, Java

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Backend Engineer

Software Engineer, Backend

Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Agentic AI

Senior Software Engineer – Control Plane, Go, Kubernetes

Senior Manager, Backend Services

Senior Engineer – Database Engineering

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace/App Experience

.Net Developer, SaaS Manager

Senior Backend Software Engineer – Node.js/TypeScript

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Staff Backend Software Engineer, Elixir

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Ledger Engineering

Member of Technical Staff, Custody – Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Kubernetes Engineer