Backend Engineer, Core Sending

In this role, you will…

• Help define the architecture to support millions of daily API requests
• Build and scale infrastructure to send dozens of millions of emails per day
• Improve high availability across distributed applications
• Scale databases like Postgres and Clickhouse to ensure that they are performant
• Enhance observability by using monitoring tools like Datadog
• Refine disaster recovery plans to ensure that recovery is quick and reliable
• Help to build our infrastructure with IaC frameworks like CDK and TF
• Work with Typescript and Golang
• Design and operate async pipelines (queues, streams, idempotency, retries, DLQs) that move tens of millions of messages per day
• Be on-call rotation (for critical services)

You will be a great fit if you...

• 8+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure
• Are fluent in writing and speaking English
• Can consistently work in the Americas timezone
• Thrive in open-ended problems and situations
• Have supported large workloads on AWS
• You love helping other developers
• “Default to action” kind of person
• Hands-on on solving problems
• Experience with event-driven systems at scale. Kafka, SQS/SNS, or similar.
• Low ego

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

• Have experience working on applications with a high workload
• Know about email best practices, or are willing to learn more about this space
• Are experienced in Typescript and Golang

What it means to join the team:

• Autonomy to 'just ship it'
• 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
• Modern tech stack
• Honest and low-ego team
• Ownership of problems and solutions
• Comp: $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with experience