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Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
Location
United States
Posted
125 days ago
Salary
$212.5K - $275K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
Thumbtack
• Own the end-to-end health of Go build and verification pipelines, including performance, reliability, and flakiness reduction. • Define and implement consistent, high-signal backend CI/CD failure visibility and debugging workflows. • Improve local backend development and iteration workflows to shorten feedback loops and reduce reliance on staging deploys. • Establish and enforce Go platform standards, ownership boundaries, and baseline documentation expectations to improve long-term codebase health. • Proactively improve shared Go codebases to reduce regression risk and increase confidence when making changes. • Partner with Platform Engineering and other infrastructure teams to align backend infrastructure with existing platform foundations. • Act as a steward for the backend engineering community by running forums, collecting feedback, sharing progress, mentoring engineers, and reviewing code in shared areas.
Job Requirements
- Experience owning and improving CI/CD systems for large, shared codebases.
- Strong proficiency with Go and familiarity with Go build, test, and verification workflows.
- Experience improving developer experience through tooling, workflow design, or platform standards.
- Ability to diagnose and address systemic reliability and performance issues in infrastructure systems.
- Experience working in shared ownership environments and establishing clear platform boundaries.
- Ability to operate with focused scope and deliver high-leverage improvements as an early member of a new team.
- Comfort working on platform-oriented problems rather than feature-oriented product work.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
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