Backend Engineer

Integrate•Seattle, WA

2d•$110,000 - $145,000

About The Position

Integrate is hiring a Backend Engineer to join a small, high-ownership engineering team building and scaling the infrastructure layer of its real-time project management platform. The role focuses on distributed-system performance, data federation at scale, and architecture that can support a growing customer base. The engineer will work closely with other engineers and collaborate with platform engineers and technical leads on infrastructure decisions. The position involves designing high-throughput distributed backend systems, profiling and debugging Go and Rust services, contributing to data federation and downstream data services, and evolving gRPC and REST/JSON interfaces. The role also works with SQL and NoSQL data stores and includes production observability, on-call responsibilities, root-cause analysis, and incident follow-through. The primary language is Go, with Python used for tooling and data workflows. The broader technology stack includes gRPC, REST/JSON, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL stores, Kubernetes, and Terraform. This role requires US person status because it involves access to information protected under US export control laws, including ITAR and/or EAR.

Requirements

2–5+ years of backend engineering experience, focused on distributed or high-availability systems.
Production experience in Go; experience with Python for tooling or data workflows.
Familiarity with gRPC and REST/JSON API design at scale.
Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data stores in production.
Experience using Kubernetes in real environments, including deployment, scaling, resource management, and debugging.
Exposure to cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, particularly compute, storage, and data services.
A track record of complex system work, such as monolith-to-microservice transitions, cloud migrations, data pipelines, or consumer-scale workloads.
Strong debugging skills, including the ability to read a flame graph, find bottlenecks, and ship fixes.
US person status (US citizen, US permanent resident, individual granted US asylum status, or individual admitted in US refugee status) is required for access to export-controlled information.

Nice To Haves

Experience with gRPC design patterns, binary serialization, or API gateway-layer GraphQL.
Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling experience.
Experience with load testing or chaos engineering.
Background in ecommerce, fintech, or other consumer-scale SaaS.

Responsibilities

Design and scale distributed backend systems handling high-throughput, real-time data across a complex dependency graph.
Profile and debug Go and Rust services, identify bottlenecks, and implement fixes.
Contribute to the data federation architecture, including S3 integration, graduation pipelines, and downstream data services.
Build and evolve gRPC service interfaces and REST/JSON APIs for internal and external users.
Work across SQL and NoSQL data stores, including schema design, query optimization, and durability patterns.
Collaborate with platform engineers and technical leads on infrastructure decisions.
Instrument, observe, and debug production systems; participate in on-call, root-cause analysis, and incident follow-through.