Backend Engineer
About yeet
yeet is built by a tight-knit group of systems, observability, and kernel nerds who refuse to accept “mystery outages” as normal. We’re a small, high-impact team with domain expertise in Linux, eBPF, performance instrumentation, and developer tooling.
We move fast, ship often, and take deep ownership. If you enjoy operating close to the metal, building tools that real engineers lean on during 3 AM incident sprints, and solving hard problems with minimal overhead, you’ll feel right at home here.
About the role
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help us scale the systems behind yeet’s real-time observability platform.
Our backend is composed primarily of Python micro services, but this isn’t just another “wrap an API around Postgres” role.
You’ll be working on streaming systems, high-throughput data ingestion, and async task pipelines that need to move fast, replicate elastically, and stay reliable under load.
About you
You have solid experience building backend services in Python, from design to production.
You’re comfortable with streaming data pipelines, pub/sub, and real-time messaging systems.
You understand how to design for throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance in distributed systems.
You can simulate high-load conditions and deliver code that’s testable, measurable, and production-ready.
You enjoy solving problems that don’t fit neatly into a CRUD API and like thinking about performance trade-offs.
You’re pragmatic: you know when to optimize and when to ship.
Nice To Haves
Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, or DuckDB in production environments.
Familiarity with async frameworks like
asyncio,celery, for task queues and background jobs.Hands-on work with real-time protocols (WebSockets, gRPC streaming, event-driven architectures).
Prior exposure to observability or monitoring platforms, especially in high-scale environments.
A track record of building or scaling high-throughput ingestion pipelines for data storage and processing.
Experience with terraform and comfort contributing to infrastructure design.
Average salary estimate
If an employer mentions a salary or salary range on their job, we display it as an "Employer Estimate". If a job has no salary data, Rise displays an estimate if available.
Yeet is hiring a Frontend Engineer to architect and optimize high-performance, canvas-based browser UIs used during real incident response workflows.
Yeet is hiring a GTM Engineer to architect and ship the instrumentation, pipelines, and integrations that power developer acquisition, activation, and retention.
Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure AWS infrastructure and automation at Mambu to modernize our global SaaS platform and enable safe, fast deployments.
Esri is hiring a Senior Product Engineer to drive development, testing, and productization of ArcGIS Monitor features that improve observability and performance for enterprise GIS systems.
Every.io is hiring a senior Front-End Engineer to lead development of accessible, performant React/TypeScript interfaces for a fast-growing startup platform.
Experienced Release and Environments Manager needed to lead multi-environment release planning, environment provisioning and CI/CD automation for a global digital solutions company.
Lead the architecture and delivery of secure, agent-based AI systems that turn high-value data into customer-facing, production-grade solutions at 3E.
Lead a full-stack engineering team at Abridge to design and deliver secure, HIPAA-compliant EHR integrations and interoperability features using modern web technologies.
Lead the design and implementation of scalable data-processing workflows and APIs for a large-scale ingestion and analysis platform based at Fort Meade.
Develop core robotics, sensor-integration, and control software for Anduril's Sentry Tower to deliver high-reliability perimeter security systems.
Lead architecture and development of Clair's real-time fintech systems, building scalable, secure APIs and transaction processing that deliver instant pay to millions of users.
Work on full-stack features and scalable audio-data pipelines at David AI to help researchers and enterprises turn raw speech into high-signal training data.
GitLab is hiring a Principal Engineer, Production Engineering to shape platform-wide reliability and scalability strategies for one of the largest multi-tenant SaaS deployments in the world.
Attentive is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer to build scalable React/TypeScript UIs for its enterprise email marketing platform in a hybrid New York City role.
A growth-focused opportunity to help build Lucid's cutting-edge web apps using JavaScript, Angular, and cloud technologies while joining a collaborative, mentorship-driven engineering team.
🔮
Hi, I'm Risa! Your AI Career Copilot
you, just ask me below!
