Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps
Core
Provide technical leadership across multiple teams to drive large-scale backend initiatives, modernize complex systems into modular architectures, and improve reliability, security, and operational excellence.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Core DevOps)
Builds
Modular backend services, data systems, and platform infrastructure
Domain
Software Engineering / Backend Systems / DevOps
Required skills
Backend architecture, system modernization, event-driven design, Kubernetes, Go, Rust, technical leadership, mentoring, AI-assisted development workflows
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Rust
Responsibilities
Lead technical design and delivery of backend initiatives across multiple teams; Drive modular backend and platform architecture; Define engineering standards for APIs, security, and observability; Guide Go service architecture and Kubernetes practices; Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; Mentor engineers and reduce technical debt; Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence