Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Hive, a rapidly growing SaaS company, as a Senior Backend Engineer on the Reliability Team. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the performance, reliability, and maintainability of our systems. This position requires strong experience in AWS, distributed systems, and application/infrastructure languages. You will champion observability improvements, drive SLO adoption, enhance application performance, and collaborate with development teams. Hive offers a fully remote work environment in Canada, flexible hours, competitive compensation, and excellent benefits.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• 3+ years experience with AWS and proven ability to build effective monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
• Track record of implementing, maintaining, and improving SLOs and uptime KPIs for critical services
• Expert knowledge of Linux, Docker, and distributed systems principles with their real-world applications
• Solid programming skills in both application and infrastructure languages (Python, Go, etc.)
• Strong grasp of security best practices and a data-driven approach to enhancing stability and availability
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and explain complex technical concepts clearly

Responsibilities

• Champion system observability improvements through implementation, maintenance, process refinement, and automation for business-critical services
• Drive SLO adoption and improvement to ensure excellent customer satisfaction across key value streams
• Enhance application performance at every level, from infrastructure foundations to runtime environments
• Tackle and resolve complex technical challenges across the entire stack
• Partner with development teams to design and implement scalable, reliable solutions
• Lead security and compliance initiatives as integral components of our engineering practice
• Craft and refine developer tools that boost team productivity and efficiency
• Develop and implement strategies to optimize cloud infrastructure costs
• Collaborate with DevOps to maintain and enhance deployment pipelines in our cloud environments
• Contribute to incident management by defining meaningful metrics, executing against targets, and improving response times and overall system stability

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience scaling complex AWS environments and optimizing performance across the full technology stack during periods of significant growth
• Experience creating developer platforms and CI/CD pipelines that enhance team productivity
• Skillful approach to cloud cost optimization and resource management
• Experience in establishing and improving incident management processes

Benefits

• Meaningful salary and equity. You're rewarded based on impact
• Work fully remote from the comfort of your home in Canada
• Opportunity to shape reliability practices at a rapidly scaling company
• Collaborative team of experienced engineers passionate about building reliable systems
• Flexible work hours with minimal meetings
• Health & Dental coverage
• Open vacation/PTO policy so you can be happy and healthy!
• Generous parental leave top-up with a flexible return-to-work plan