About Macroscope

Macroscope aims to be the source of truth of what's happening for any company that builds software. Our mission is to give leaders clarity and engineers time.

We help leaders understand how their products and codebases are evolving—what’s changing, who’s working on what, and where progress is happening—grounded in the ultimate source of truth: the code.

Macroscope is founded by former entrepreneurs who have started and sold multiple companies, and operated as product/engineering executives at public tech companies. We're fortunate to be supported by the best VC firms and angels in the business, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Google Ventures, and Adverb.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer to help shape and scale the foundation of Macroscope’s platform. You’ll play a key role in designing and implementing the distributed systems, infrastructure, and APIs that power our core product.

You’ll lead projects focused on backend scalability, reliability, and performance—ensuring that our systems can evolve alongside customer demand. You’ll also partner closely with the rest of the engineering team to establish best practices in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring.

As part of our small team, you’ll work directly with the founders, engineers, and designer to make architectural decisions that will define the trajectory of our product and company.

Our technology stack: Typescript/React (front-end), Golang (backend), Temporal, Google Cloud (GCP), Postgres, Terraform, custom-built AST "code walkers" in various languages (Golang, Typescript, Swift, Python, Rust)

Qualifications

• Deep experience architecting and operating distributed backend systems at scale.

• Expertise in building resilient, performant, and maintainable backend services and APIs.

• Strong proficiency with cloud environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including networking, IAM, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent).

• Experience leading backend or infrastructure projects and driving architectural decisions in high-growth engineering teams.

• Hands-on experience with databases (SQL/Postgres), caching layers, and messaging systems.

• Familiarity with observability tools and practices (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).

• You use various AI-tools to accelerate you as an engineer, and you are curious about staying up to date with the latest and greatest.

• Background in building or integrating AI/ML systems (LLMs, RAG) is a plus.

• Strong experience with Go (our primary backend language) is highly preferred

• Bonus: exposure to Temporal as a worker management system.

About you

• You are extremely high agency. We are a small startup and we intend to keep an extremely flat organizational structure for as long as possible. Instead of relying on people managers, product managers and heavy processes, we rely on exceptionally talented individuals with high agency to be self-motivated towards contributing to our mission.

• You want to work at an early stage start-up. The default state of any startup is failure. The only way to overcome the daunting odds of making a startup venture successful is for a densely packed group of insanely hard working and talented people to work together to building something useful to and loved by customers. If you're not willing to work extremely hard on something high risk, this startup isn't for you.

• You act like an owner. You put immense care and craft into what you build because you take responsibility for all parts of the product. You don't walk past broken windows.

• You care about what we're building. Life's too short to work on something you're not passionate about. We are a small group of ambitious people who want to build something insanely great that we want to use, and that we think every company will want to use. If our mission and product doesn't resonate with you, we understand and would encourage you to find something that does.