Remote Staff Engineer

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Svix

πŸ’΅ $190k-$210k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Job highlights

Summary

The job is for a Staff Engineer with a focus on the backend to help scale the team and product. The employee will solve technical challenges, provide a great developer experience, and share the obsession for providing a great developer experience. The ideal candidate is a 10x engineer with leadership skills, excellent technical abilities, and a clear communicator.

Requirements

  • Be a 10x engineer looking to do great work
  • Experience building and designing high scale and high availability systems, including a deep understanding of infrastructure, databases, and common backend patterns
  • Excellent technical, architectural (system design), diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
  • Have a great taste in software and API design, with great instincts for what great looks like
  • Be a clear communicator that is great to work with
  • Have strong leadership and organizational abilities
  • Be obsessed with shipping and high engineering velocity, while maintaining high stability
  • Having previously worked as a staff engineer, tech lead, or a similar role
  • Experience with the technologies we use in the backend and infrastructure such as: Rust, Postgres, Redis, and Terraform

Responsibilities

  • Be a strong individual contributor, deploying high quality production code in a fast-paced environment
  • Build new features while providing a great developer experience for our customers
  • Help the team scale the product while ensuring stability and high availability
  • Help the team with technical challenges and successful completion of tasks
  • Help organize the team, planning sprints, delegating tasks, and organizing goals, while maintaining a high team velocity as the team increases in size

Preferred Qualifications

  • Rust experience (if lacking, an ability to quickly ramp up is required)
  • Frontend experience

Benefits

  • Base Salary Range: $190,000 - $210,000
  • Equity
  • Health insurance (including vision and dental)
  • Long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • Paid sick time and paid personal time off

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