This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Insights based in India.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-impact engineering team focused on building the foundational systems that power large-scale data platforms and analytics capabilities. The role involves designing and operating distributed backend services that support data ingestion, storage, querying, and platform intelligence across multiple environments. You will work on complex, high-throughput systems, driving architectural decisions and ensuring production readiness, reliability, and scalability. The position offers significant ownership, close collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams, and the opportunity to shape next-generation platform capabilities. Ideal candidates thrive in asynchronous, remote-first environments and enjoy solving challenging infrastructure and data engineering problems while leveraging AI-driven productivity tools.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Insights based in India.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-impact engineering team focused on building the foundational systems that power large-scale data platforms and analytics capabilities. The role involves designing and operating distributed backend services that support data ingestion, storage, querying, and platform intelligence across multiple environments. You will work on complex, high-throughput systems, driving architectural decisions and ensuring production readiness, reliability, and scalability. The position offers significant ownership, close collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams, and the opportunity to shape next-generation platform capabilities. Ideal candidates thrive in asynchronous, remote-first environments and enjoy solving challenging infrastructure and data engineering problems while leveraging AI-driven productivity tools.
Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in Go, focusing on data ingestion, transport, replication, storage, and querying capabilities.
- Own and evolve critical platform components, including APIs, messaging systems, and query-serving architectures to support data-intensive workloads.
- Drive architectural decisions related to system reliability, scalability, observability, deployment strategies, and operational excellence.
- Improve production readiness across multiple deployment environments, ensuring safe rollouts and long-term maintainability.
- Investigate and resolve complex distributed systems challenges, including performance bottlenecks, scaling limitations, and recovery scenarios.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, data, and engineering teams on system design, code reviews, planning, and delivery of platform features.
- Contribute to a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, clear documentation, and effective asynchronous communication.
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to enhance development efficiency, troubleshooting, documentation, and technical investigations.
- Strong professional experience building and operating production-grade backend systems using Go.
- Proven expertise designing scalable and reliable systems for high-throughput, data-intensive, or distributed environments.
- Experience developing APIs and service integrations, including gRPC or similar communication patterns.
- Background working with data platforms, event-driven systems, analytics infrastructures, or large-scale data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with ClickHouse or similar query-focused databases and analytical data stores.
- Familiarity with backend technologies such as Ruby on Rails or the ability to quickly ramp up on adjacent technologies.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure concerns including observability, deployment strategies, system performance, and reliability engineering.
- Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams and delivering platform capabilities consumed by internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in remote and highly collaborative environments.
- Comfortable using AI tools and automation solutions to improve productivity and engineering workflows.
- Fully remote work environment with flexible working arrangements.
- Competitive compensation package and equity participation opportunities.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
- Flexible paid time off to support work-life balance.
- Parental leave and family support programs.
- Dedicated growth and development funding for learning and career advancement.
- Access to employee resource groups and inclusive community initiatives.
- Opportunity to work on highly impactful, cutting-edge platform and data engineering challenges within a global team.