The Reinforcement-Learning-native search and discovery platform that changes how users act, not just what they see.
Staff Backend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer
Sequen
• Build and scale robust, concurrent core platform components designed to handle Sequen's rapid growth and high transactional throughput. • Design and architect composable platform components that deliver exceptional value across a wide variety of enterprise use cases. • Partner closely with product and ML engineering teams to deeply understand their requirements and build platform capabilities that accelerate feature delivery. • Make critical build-versus-buy decisions, evaluating and implementing third-party or open-source solutions when they yield the highest strategic impact. • Define the long-term technical direction, standards, and vision for various product and platform features. • Collaborate closely with our ML research scientists to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs.
Job Requirements
- Bring 8+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building highly performant, scalable distributed systems.
- Possess an expert-level command of Go (Golang) as your primary programming language for building highly concurrent systems.
- Demonstrate strong systems-level skills and extensive experience designing and operating complex service-oriented architectures.
- Thrive in early-stage, fast-moving, or rapidly evolving environments, with a proven history of building and scaling systems from 0 to 1.
- Take absolute accountability for your work, navigating ambiguity with agility and proactively resolving obstacles to deliver results.
- Operate comfortably across any layer of the stack, diving into cloud infrastructure, core microservices, or developer tooling to deliver complete, effective solutions.
- Enjoy working alongside a fast-paced, elite team tackling cutting-edge challenges at the intersection of systems engineering and AI ranking.
- Approach platform engineering with a product-focused lens, caring deeply about building systems that are robust, highly scalable, and easy to use.
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
Benefits
- Full health insurance coverage
- Unlimited paid time off
- Highly collaborative, world-class engineering culture
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