Staff Software Engineer Distributed Systems

You will own database architecture, caching, multi-tenant infrastructure, rate limiting, and performance optimization. You will design scalable data patterns, improve critical-path latency, build graceful degradation under load, and create observability that detects reliability and performance regressions.

Responsibilities

• Own database performance, query optimization, indexing, connection management, and capacity planning
• Design multi-tenant data patterns
• Build caching infrastructure and optimize critical application paths
• Design rate-limiting, queue-management, circuit-breaker, and load-shedding systems
• Build dashboards and alerts for database, cache, connection-pool, and API-latency performance
• Harden systems against reliability failure modes

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years focused on infrastructure, backend systems, or platform engineering
• Experience owning cross-cutting infrastructure
• Strong backend skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar technologies
• Deep relational database experience
• Experience with Postgres
• Experience diagnosing scaling or reliability problems
• Ability to work in San Francisco three days per week

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• 401(k) matching up to 3% of base salary
• Remote-friendly culture and full equipment provisioning
• Parental leave
• Company and team off-sites with travel, lodging, and meals covered
• Flexible time off with no annual cap
• Company-wide holidays and annual holiday shutdown