Backend Engineer
About The Position
You will work on the team that owns our data platform, including real-time API integrations, Kafka-based streaming systems, Spark and Airflow data pipelines, and the data services that power our application layer. You take pride in building reliable, maintainable, and scalable infrastructure that turns complex data flows into high-quality services for the product. You can translate product and customer requirements into durable platform designs, make thoughtful technical tradeoffs, and build systems that anticipate our needs as we evolve. Fable is founded by the early team from Abnormal Security ($5B valuation) and backed by Greylock, the investors behind Palo Alto Networks, Okta, Figma, and others. Our team has built many of the iconic products at Meta, Twitter, Flexport, and more. Our team has alumni from Waterloo, Columbia, Berkeley, Purdue, CMU, Stanford, and USC.
Requirements
- 3+ years developing backend software
- Designed, implemented, and owned production-facing services
- Experience with one of: Relational DB backends (Django or similar)
- Experience building distributed systems and backends
- Experience with AWS, terraform, EKS, and cloud systems
- Strong desire to be part of an early team and create foundational systems
Nice To Haves
- Experience building and integrating with external APIs
- Experience building ETL and data pipelines
Responsibilities
- Build reliable, maintainable, and scalable infrastructure that turns complex data flows into high-quality services for the product.
- Translate product and customer requirements into durable platform designs.
- Make thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
- Build systems that anticipate our needs as we evolve.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock units
- sign-on bonus
- other potential future incentives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
