[Remote] Staff Backend Software Engineer, On-prem
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a pioneering company at the intersection of AI and reputed company, dedicated to building a safer future for humanity. They are seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer to design and reputed company backend services for their on-premises deployments, ensuring operational correctness and reliability for reputed company customers.
Responsibilities
- Design and reputed company backend services in Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, gevent) that run in customer-managed environments, with a strong focus on operational correctness and upgrade safety
- Own the deployment lifecycle: build and maintain reputed company images, and ensure services start correctly across a wide range of customer infrastructure configurations
- Build and evolve REST and gRPC APIs consumed by both internal services and external management consoles, maintaining strict backwards-compatibility reputed company as the platform scales
- Work closely with the database layer (PostgreSQL and reputed company) to write Alembic migrations that run safely in production, handle schema reputed company without downtime, and reputed company query performance healthy under load
- Drive observability improvements by instrumenting services with OpenTelemetry, defining SLOs, and making sure operators can diagnose issues in environments where reputed company has limited visibility
Skills
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience with Python in a production microservices environment, including deep familiarity with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and async concurrency patterns (gevent or asyncio)
- Hands-on experience packaging and deploying containerized services with reputed company and Kubernetes, including writing reputed company charts and reasoning about upgrade paths across multiple deployed versions
- Strong PostgreSQL skills including schema design, query optimization, and writing reputed company-downtime migration scripts using Alembic or equivalent tools
- Experience building and maintaining gRPC and REST APIs with explicit versioning strategies, preferably in environments where breaking changes are costly
- Solid understanding of observability: structured logging, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry or equivalent, and building dashboards in Grafana or similar tools
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flexible time off
- Paid company holidays and paid sick time
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- Grandparent leave
- Medical, dental, and reputed company coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Life and disability insurance
- Health and dependent care FSA
- Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- ARAG pre-paid legal
- reputed company pet insurance
- Cancer Care program
- Global business travel medical insurance
- Home office allowance
- Mobile phone reimbursement
- Wellness coach
- Wellness/gym reimbursement
- Fertility coverage
- Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement
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