Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Metaplane is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join their growing engineering team. The role will be responsible for various aspects of the backend, including building integrations, scaling systems, improving developer experience, debugging production issues, and reviewing code changes. Candidates should have 3+ years of experience with backend technologies like Java, Python, and Node.js, and a high bar for quality software.

Requirements

• Has 3+ years working with backend technologies like Java, Python, and Node.js
• Has experience building scalable backend and distributed systems like APIs and workers

Responsibilities

• Work with the product team and customers to design, build, and ship core features to the Metaplane platform using Python and Java
• Build integrations with tools throughout the data pipeline ecosystem including ETL tools (e.g. Airflow), warehouses (e.g. Snowflake), transformation tools (e.g. dbt), and business intelligence tools (e.g. Looker)
• Scale our observation and machine learning pipeline that collects billions of metadata records for our customers
• Scale our infrastructure in AWS using tools like Terraform
• Improve our backend developer experience using tools like Gitbook, CircleCI, Datadog, and Sentry
• Debug and fix production issues across multiple systems that are affecting our customers
• Review code changes and design specs from teammates

Preferred Qualifications

• Desire to own engineering end-to-end
• Love for talking to users, understanding their needs, and making sure your product meets their requirements
• Appetite for working in fast-paced environments where you get to work directly with customers and make decisions that have a huge impact on the business
• Desire to create and maintain an engineering culture of craftsmanship
• Familiarity with the modern data stack (e.g. Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Looker)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Fully covered health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Work-from-home stipend
• Ownership of your work, and collaboration with a closely-knit team
• Metaplane is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion at our company. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. If you don’t feel like you hit 100% of the requirements above but are passionate about our mission and space, please apply