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Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you’ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You’ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.

This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.
The base salary range for this role is 180-220k. 

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with engineers, product managers and designers to identify customer needs and build innovative solutions to solve them

  • Design and implement new features and lead the shipping of these features into production 

  • Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services 

  • Implement best practices in a fast-paced engineering environment

  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to ensure that product quality and performance SLAs are consistently met.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 4+ years of hands-on technical development experience

  • Experience programming in Go, C++, Java or related language

  • Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.

  • Experience designing and building systems in a microservices-based architecture 

  • Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them

  • A foundational understanding of multi-threaded programming, concurrency primitives, and data structures

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Tools We Use

  • Go

  • Node.js

  • React

  • Python

  • Cassandra

  • Redis

  • Terraform

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • AWS

  • Kafka

  • Envoy

  • CircleCI

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