Staff Backend Engineer - Search Features & APIs (SABR)

📋 Description

• Own the technical direction of one or more of our services - architecture, performance, and
• Lead design of new systems and public APIs, and the evolution of existing ones as traffic and
• Raise the engineering bar through design and code review, and mentor mid and senior engineers into
• Partner with product, other engineering teams, and solutions/support to shape what we build and to
• Take part in on-call for the systems you own, and lead incident response and follow-through when

🎯 Requirements

• Substantial experience building and operating high-traffic, low-latency backend services in
• Extensive Python knowledge (our primary language).
• Experience with observability and performance work in live systems.
• Experience designing and evolving public APIs that external customers depend on.
• Experience designing & implementing scalable service-oriented architectures.
• Track record of leading projects that span multiple engineers and quarters.

🎁 Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
• Fully remote team - choose where you live
• Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
• Apple laptops provided for new employees
• Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
• Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees