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Backend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
$180K - $240K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Engineer
Fathom - AI Meeting Assistant
• Contribute to our collection of highly-scalable services • Use your background to understand and improve existing services under the supervision of existing team members • Analyze the cost models of our services and suggest areas of and strategies for new operational efficiencies • Lead the development of new services such as a k8s operator to control a service’s lifecycle or a cloud storage caching layer • Play a key role in technology evaluations and architecture evolution discussions • Harden and productize internally or externally developed libraries and services • Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our user-facing application, and drive improvements of scalability
Job Requirements
- Proficiency with k8s and Go, including a strong understanding of garbage collection and profiling
- Familiarity with our tech stack (or equivalents): GCP/GKE, Linux, Docker, Ruby/Rails, Redis, ffmpeg
- Experience in a SaaS or PaaS environment at our scale
- Curiosity-driven and pragmatic with a focus on delivering results
- A generalist mindset with the ability to dive deep into a wide range of challenges
- Resilience, attention to detail, and an ability to grind through complex problems
- Openness to disagreement and commitment to decisions once made
- Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to explain complex insights in an accessible manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Independence in managing one’s workload and priorities
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- A supportive environment that encourages innovation and personal growth
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