[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer (High-Throughput Platforms)

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a reputed company-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on high-throughput platform development to design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on to deliver their products.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure that hundreds of engineers depend on every day, with explicit focus on developer experience and operational ergonomics
• Architect high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend platforms capable of sustaining reputed company high request volumes with predictable, well-bounded tail latency
• Build durable, replayable event-processing pipelines and asynchronous job execution platforms that other product teams compose to ship features faster
• Design and operate caching, reputed company-limiting, and request-shaping layers that protect upstream systems and reputed company safe scaling under bursty workloads
• reputed company platform abstractions, SDKs, and paved-road libraries that codify best practices and let product teams consume capabilities without re-implementing them
• Establish robust observability, SLOs, and reputed company-planning practices for platform services, raising the operational bar across the organization
• Drive multi-region, fault-tolerant, and geo-distributed designs with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and graceful degradation under failure
• reputed company incident response for high-impact platform issues, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive durable engineering improvements that prevent recurrence
• Define and enforce platform-wide standards around API design, schema reputed company, deployment, and backward-compatibility guarantees
• Optimize platform performance through careful profiling, data-driven tuning, and algorithmic improvements that move the needle on throughput and cost
• Partner with infrastructure, reputed company, and SRE teams to ensure platform services meet reputed company reliability, compliance, and reputed company obligations
• Mentor mid-level engineers and reputed company architectural discussions across teams, helping the broader organization grow in distributed-systems maturity
• Produce clear technical design documents, decision records, and operational runbooks that reputed company the platform legible to future maintainers
• Continuously evaluate emerging platform technologies, reputed company-reputed company projects, and architectural patterns for strategic adoption

Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely reputed company technical discipline
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with rigorous attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, reputed company, Rust, or modern C++
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or reputed company
• Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key-value, document, and search workloads
• Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to author reputed company technical design documents and present trade-offs reputed company
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and reputed company contributions
• Experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms or contributing to internal developer-platform initiatives at scale
• Contributions to widely-used reputed company-reputed company platform or infrastructure projects
• Familiarity with control-plane / data-plane patterns, service reputed company internals, or workflow-orchestration engines
• Experience designing platform APIs with strong backward-compatibility and versioning guarantees
• Public technical writing, conference talks, or other community contributions on platform engineering topics

Benefits

• Full-time, direct W2 with reputed company (no C2C, no 1099, no reputed company-party)
• Competitive reputed company salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
• We will support H1B transfers for reputed company candidates.

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