Senior Backend Engineer - Data Core (remote, Europe)
Core
Design and operate resilient distributed systems that collect and maintain profiles for 400M+ creators across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, processing billions of data points to supply Modash's search, analytics, and API products.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Data Infrastructure)
Builds
High-scale data collection infrastructure, proxy management, and request routing systems for social media platforms.
Domain
Creator economy, social media data, distributed systems
Required skills
Distributed systems design, high-volume service reliability, third-party API integration, proxy management, request routing, operational ownership, autonomous problem solving
Preferred skills
Social media API experience, data quality frameworks, freshness/coverage monitoring
Technologies
AWS, Pulumi, TypeScript, Node.js, Aurora Limitless, Postgres, S3, CloudWatch, ECS, SQS, Athena
Responsibilities
Build systems to collect and maintain 400M+ creator profiles; design services resilient to API instability and rate limits; optimize collection economics; own production operations including monitoring and alerting
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
