Senior Backend Engineer
$190,000–$265,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$190,000–$265,000 yearSenior LevelTechnologySmall
Full TimeSenior LevelSmallTechnology
Job Summary
Design and ship APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure powering documentation sites for 100 million+ developers. Ingest, validate, transform, and publish content from thousands of customer repositories while improving caching, queues, databases, and observability. Collaborate across design and engineering to take features from development through launch, contributing to product and technical decisions. Solve technically ambitious backend problems involving search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure as the team scales.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of software development experience
- strong experience with systems design
- strong experience with API architecture
- strong experience with databases
- strong experience with production systems
- strong product intuition
- adaptable and willing to work beyond the backend when needed to ship a feature
- appreciate a high degree of ownership
- thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec
- eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build
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