Backend Systems Engineer

About the RoleTritonium is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services that process high volumes of data reliably and efficiently.ResponsibilitiesDesign and Build Scalable Backend Services: Develop and maintain scalable backend services that process high volumes of data reliably and efficiently.Event-Driven Architectures and Asynchronous Processing Pipelines: Develop and optimize event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing pipelines.API Development and Improvement: Build and improve APIs that power our dashboard, integrations, and external developer SDKs.Data Storage Patterns: Implement robust data storage patterns for multi-tenant SaaS, ensuring performance, security, and isolation.AI Integration: Collaborate with the ML/AI team to integrate AI capabilities into production systems efficiently.Monitoring, Alerting, and Observability Systems: Design monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure high availability and rapid incident response.Security Best Practices: Contribute to security best practices including authentication, authorization, and secure credential management.Architecture Decisions and Engineering Standards: Participate in architecture decisions and help establish engineering standards as the team grows.Debugging and Resolving Production Issues: Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems.Clean, Tested, Maintainable Code: Write clean, tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.RequirementsBachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent Practical Experience: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.Backend Engineering Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant work on production systems at scale.Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Python or similar backend languages.Cloud Platforms and Serverless Architectures: Experience with cloud platforms and serverless architectures.NoSQL Databases and Data Modeling: Solid understanding of NoSQL databases, data modeling, and query optimization.RESTful APIs: Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.Event-Driven Architectures and Message Queues: Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, and asynchronous processing patterns.Security Fundamentals: Understanding of security fundamentals: authentication, encryption, secrets management.Ability to Work Independently: Ability to work independently and drive projects to completion in a fully remote environment.Preferred SkillsMulti-Tenant SaaS Platforms: Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms.Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.Third-Party API Integration and OAuth Flows: Experience integrating with third-party APIs and OAuth flows.Cost Optimization Strategies for Cloud Infrastructure: Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure.Billing Systems and Subscription Management: Experience with billing systems and subscription management.Processing Text Data and ML/NLP Systems: Background in processing text data or working alongside ML/NLP systems.Observability Tools and Distributed Tracing: Familiarity with observability tools and distributed tracing.Mentoring Engineers and Contributing to Engineering Culture: Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering culture.Why Join Us?Impact Your Work Directly: Own critical backend systems that directly impact product quality and customer experience.Interesting Challenges: Work on interesting challenges: high-volume data processing, AI integration, real-time alerting.Small Team: Join a small team where your architectural decisions shape the platform's future.Fully Remote Position: Enjoy the flexibility and autonomy of a fully remote position with competitive compensation.Infrastructure That Helps Thousands: Build infrastructure that helps thousands of product teams understand their users better.To Apply:Please submit your resume, a brief description of a backend system you've built or significantly improved, and links to any relevant projects or contributions to us with