Senior Server-Side Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Server-Side Engineer based in United States.

This role offers the opportunity to design and scale foundational backend platforms that power critical engineering capabilities across an organization. You will build high-performance services focused on reliability, scalability, and developer productivity. The position involves solving complex distributed systems challenges, including traffic management, event processing, caching, and large-scale data workflows. You will collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to create robust solutions that support product innovation. This is an impactful opportunity for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys building platforms used by many teams and improving engineering standards. You will contribute to architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and help shape best practices around modern platform development. The ideal candidate thrives in technically challenging environments where performance, reliability, and operational excellence are essential.

Accountabilities:: The Senior Server-Side Engineer will design, develop, and operate scalable backend platforms and shared infrastructure while driving technical excellence across engineering teams.

Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure that enable engineering teams to deliver products efficiently.

Architect high-throughput, low-latency backend systems capable of supporting significant traffic volumes with predictable performance.

Develop event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing platforms, and durable data pipelines.

Create scalable caching, rate-limiting, and request-management systems to improve reliability and performance.

Build platform abstractions, SDKs, and reusable libraries that help teams adopt consistent engineering practices.

Establish observability standards, service-level objectives, and capacity planning processes for critical services.

Design multi-region and fault-tolerant systems with strong focus on availability, resilience, and graceful failure handling.

Lead investigations into complex production issues, perform post-incident analysis, and implement long-term improvements.

Define engineering standards around APIs, schemas, deployments, and backward compatibility.

Optimize platform performance through profiling, benchmarking, and data-driven improvements.

Partner with infrastructure, security, and reliability teams to ensure platforms meet operational and security requirements.

Mentor engineers, contribute to architectural discussions, and promote strong engineering practices across teams.

Create technical documentation, design proposals, operational guides, and decision records.

Evaluate emerging technologies and open-source solutions to identify opportunities for platform improvements.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a highly experienced backend or platform engineer with strong distributed systems knowledge and a passion for building reliable, scalable infrastructure.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

6+ years of professional experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems development.

Proven experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services used by multiple engineering teams.

Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, consistency, availability, latency, and failure handling.

Advanced proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.

Experience designing high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.

Strong knowledge of data storage technologies across relational databases, key-value stores, document databases, and search systems.

Experience leading complex, multi-quarter engineering initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create technical documentation and explain architectural trade-offs.

Experience mentoring engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.

Familiarity with Kubernetes-based platforms, internal developer platforms, service mesh technologies, or workflow orchestration is a plus.

Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects, technical writing, or community involvement are advantageous.

Authorized to work in the United States without requiring new employer-sponsored visa support.

Benefits:

Competitive annual salary range of $100,000–$150,000.

Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.

Full-time direct employment opportunity.

Career growth opportunities within an established technology environment.

Opportunity to work on large-scale backend platforms and complex engineering challenges.

Collaborative environment with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams.

Access to projects involving modern cloud, infrastructure, and distributed systems technologies.

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