Backend Engineer

Integrate•Seattle, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Integrate is hiring a Backend Engineer to join a small, high-ownership engineering team building the infrastructure layer of Integrate's platform. This role focuses on scaling the platform and involves working on distributed system performance, data federation at scale, and building the architecture for growth. The engineer will collaborate with a team that values craft, speed, and making difficult decisions. Ideal candidates will have experience building systems for significant consumer or commercial load, including cloud migrations, microservice transitions, distributed data pipelines, and event-driven architecture.

Requirements

2–5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a focus on distributed or high-availability systems
Production experience in Go; Python for tooling or data workflows
Familiarity with gRPC and REST/JSON API design at scale
Experience with both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data stores in production
Kubernetes in real environments — deployment, scaling, resource management, debugging
Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), particularly around compute, storage, and data services
A track record on complex system work: monolith-to-microservice transitions, cloud migrations, data pipelines, or consumer-scale workloads
Strong debugging instincts — you can read a flame graph, find a bottleneck, and ship a fix
US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience with gRPC design patterns, binary serialization, or API gateway-layer GraphQL
Terraform or other IaC tooling
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
Own performance profiling and debugging across our Go and Rust services — identify bottlenecks and ship fixes
Contribute to our data federation architecture, including S3 integration, graduation pipelines, and downstream data services
Build and evolve gRPC service interfaces and REST/JSON APIs consumed across internal and external surfaces
Work across SQL and NoSQL data stores — schema design, query optimization, and durability patterns
Drive infrastructure decisions in collaboration with platform engineers and technical leads
Instrument, observe, and debug production systems — on-call, root cause analysis, and incident follow-through