Senior Software Engineer

Pindrop

Posted 2mo ago

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Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs
Take end-to-end ownership of platform work
Improve reliability, scalability, latency, and cost across shared platform systems
Partner closely with Product, SRE, and peer engineering teams
Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement
Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, and mentorship

5-7+ years of experience building backend services and APIs in production
Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go
Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker
Proven production ownership, including deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and participating in on-call for high-scale services
Strong experience with data and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ
Ability to reason about reliability, performance, and scale tradeoffs

Experience with Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, or IAM
Experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform
Strong observability habits across metrics, logs, and traces
Experience scaling or migrating databases, including read replicas, cluster mode, or engine migrations

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